Trump administration sued for failures on contact tracing

A group of New York plaintiffs are suing two federal agencies for failing to comply with June 2019 law creating a national testing and tracing program to monitor a pandemic. The law requires the Center for Disease Control to provide the public with timely reports on virus test results. In March of this year, the Trump administration punted, leaving contact tracing up to the states. (New York Daily News, November 1, 2020, by Clayton Guse)

Contact tracing is failing as state and local health officials encounter overwhelming tides of cases, lack of public participation, delays in getting test results and failures in training. (The New York Times, October 5, 2020, updated from July 31, 2020, by Jennifer Steinhauer and Abby Goodnough with contributions from Donald G. McNeil Jr.)

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