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The Latest: UCLA health expert: CDC should trace Trump

October 6, 2020

LOS ANGELES — Anne Rimoin, an infectious diseases expert at the UCLA, called for full involvement of the CDC in the contact tracing around President Donald Trump.

Rimoin says samples could be taken from people who are infected. By taking genetic material of the virus and sequencing it, scientists can build a “road map of who spread it to whom and reconstruct a much better timeline.”

White House doctor Sean Conley has refused to say when Trump last tested negative, saying he doesn’t want to “go backwards.” Rimoin says that’s exactly what contact tracing requires. Knowing how long the president was infected, and others around him, can help identify who was exposed.

Rimoin calls it “irresponsible and reckless” not to trace and “break trains of transmission to save lives right now and to learn more about super-spreading.”

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Spam calls are hindering efforts to contact trace and track Covid-19

October 6, 2020

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Nine months into a pandemic that has killed 210,000 people in the United States, health officials are imploring residents to answer their phones. The caller may be a disease tracker trying to save you from the deadly coronavirus.

a man talking on a cell phone: Joseph Ortiz, a contact tracer in New York City, gathers information as he heads to a potential patient's home.

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Joseph Ortiz, a contact tracer in New York City, gathers information as he heads to a potential patient’s home.

Contract tracing involves identifying sick people, isolating them and then tracing everyone with whom they’ve been in contact and putting those people into quarantine.

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But many people wary of spam calls and phishing scams are not answering calls from unknown numbers, undermining efforts by contact tracers to reach people exposed to Covid-19. And some states such as Louisiana are sending letters to those people who don’t answer — not the most effective way when time is of the essence.

Without a federal contact tracing program, health departments have

NJ health officials reach out to Trump fundraiser guests in attempt to trace virus

October 5, 2020

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Supporters of President Donald Trump who attended a high-dollar fundraiser in New Jersey this week have started hearing from state health officials trying to trace exposures tied to the White House’s coronavirus outbreak.

a small clock tower in front of a house: Golfers play golf at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. With just a month to go until the election, President Donald Trump had a busy schedule in the week before the coronavirus hit home with him.

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Golfers play golf at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. With just a month to go until the election, President Donald Trump had a busy schedule in the week before the coronavirus hit home with him.

Charlie Kolean, a Dallas, Texas, supporter who posed for a photo Thursday with Trump inside the president’s Bedminster country club, said he received an email Sunday.

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“The Somerset County Health Department and the New Jersey Department of Health understand that you attended an event… at which time you may have potentially been exposed to COVID-19,” said the email, which was obtained by ABC News.

The outreach comes after Trump tested positive

New Jersey health officials reaching out to Trump fundraiser guests, trying to trace virus

October 5, 2020

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Charlie Kolean, a Dallas, Texas, supporter who posed for a photo Thursday with Trump inside the president’s Bedminster country club, said he received an email Sunday.

The outreach comes after Trump tested positive for COVID-19 and questions continue to mount about just how far the virus has spread in the White House. The New Jersey Department of Health confirmed Sunday the Republican National Committee had given them a list of over 200 attendees, and that they had a contact

The White House Is Failing to Contact Trace Its Own COVID Outbreak: Report

October 5, 2020

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In the wake of the president’s positive coronavirus test on Thursday night, the administration has claimed that it has initiated a “full contact tracing” program that is “consistent with CDC guidelines.” But according to a new CNN report, the White House that failed to protect a non-compliant president from the pandemic is failing to trace its own outbreak, a crucial, post-infection step that can significantly limit the spread of the virus if properly executed.

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Similar to White House staffers’ negligence prior to Trump’s positive test — he went to an indoor buffet with donors on Thursday hours after officials reportedly learned of Hope Hicks’s diagnosis — the administration has not provided guidance to those exposed or infected by the president and his inner circle. Chris Christie, the president’s debate coach who tested positive this weekend, said that the administration gave no formal directions on contact

The Best in Senior Health & Wellness at Eagle’s Trace

October 3, 2020

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Houston, Texas – When Dennis McKeever and his wife Cathy moved to Sugar Land, Texas, from Savannah, Georgia, in 2014, they knew their new home was just down the road from the largest medical center in the world, Texas Medical Center.

“There are so many options for outstanding medical care in Houston,” says Dennis, who received his PhD in physical chemistry from the University of California, then joined the Dow Chemical Company where he served as senior vice president for global research and development. After retiring from Dow, Dennis spent twenty years working in the biomedical sciences, primarily in medical diagnostics, oncology drug discovery, and optical microscope development for ophthalmologists.

Dennis and Cathy moved once more in 2018, trading their Sugar Land home for the maintenance-free lifestyle at Eagle’s Trace, the Erickson Living-managed community in West Houston.

Located on 72 scenic acres just south of I-10, Eagle’s Trace offers spacious

Public Health Officials Scramble To Contact Trace Trump : NPR

October 2, 2020

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President Donald Trump throws hats to supporters after speaking at a campaign rally at Duluth International Airport on Wednesday in Duluth, Minn.

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President Donald Trump throws hats to supporters after speaking at a campaign rally at Duluth International Airport on Wednesday in Duluth, Minn.

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Public health officials in the cities and states that President Trump visited in recent days are working to contact those who had been in close proximity to him, the first lady and others who traveled with him.

Since he’s tested positive for the coronavirus, health officials worry those who attended events with the president could have contracted the virus too.

Over the past two weeks, Trump attended events in the swing states of Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota, as well as a fundraiser in New Jersey and of course, the presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio. He

Ex-Sainsbury’s boss takes key Test and Trace job

September 29, 2020

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Former Sainsbury’s supermarket chief executive Mike Coupe is to take over as director of Covid-19 testing at England’s Test and Trace agency.

He brings huge experience in running supply chains and logistics, said the Department for Health and Social Care.

But Labour shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said it would make more sense to put “those trained in actual infectious disease control in charge”.

Mr Coupe, who left Sainsbury’s in May, replaces Sarah-Jane Marsh.

Earlier this month she issued a “heartfelt” apology for problems with the coronavirus testing system. She blamed delays in laboratory processing.

At Test and Trace, Mr Coupe will be joining other former retail executives. The head of the service, Dido Harding, worked at Tesco and Sainsbury’s before spending seven years as boss of TalkTalk.

A former head of HR at Sainsbury’s is at test and trace, as is a former digital director of Waitrose.

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