D.C faults White House over Rose Garden event, urges testing

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In an extraordinary step, the Washington, D.C., Department of Health has released an open letter appealing to all White House staff and anyone who attended a Sept. 26 event in the Rose Garden to seek medical advice and take a COVID-19 test.

The letter indicates a lack of confidence in the White House medical team's own contact tracing efforts regarding an ongoing virus outbreak that has infected President Donald Trump, multiple senior staff members and two U.S. senators, among others.

It asks all White House employees, anyone who attended the Sept. 26 event and anyone who may have been in contact with those people to "contact your local health department for further guidance/questions regarding your potential need to quarantine." "There are established public health protocols at the White House that are federal in nature," Bowser said on Monday. "We assume that those protocols have been engaged."

It shines a further spotlight on the Sept. 26 Rose Garden ceremony to introduce Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. Multiple attendees, including Trump and Notre Dame University President Rev. John Jenkins, who flew in from Indiana for the ceremony, have now tested positive.

 

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Why did you cancel your trip, Mike?

More likely that infections were spread at the White House Reception for Gold Star Families.

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