Tuesday 6 October 2020

White House contact tracing questioned as Covid-19 spreads in Washington

‘The White House contact tracing programme is too haphazard to pinpoint or halt a COVID-19 outbreak that was rapidly spreading in the US capital city, health experts and city officials said on Tuesday (Oct 6). Washington reported 105 new cases of the coronavirus for Oct 5, the mayor's office said, the highest figure since June...

‘A White House event on Sep 26 for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was suspected of spreading infections, as was an Air Force One flight that evening with Trump. But several staff members, guests and journalists at the event or on the flight told Reuters they have not been contacted by the White House medical team.’

Read here (Channel News Asia, Oct 7, 2020)

Worst ever Covid variant? Omicron

John Campbell shares his findings on Omicron.  View here (Youtube, Nov 27, 2021)