The President's diagnosis calls for contact tracing on a massive scale. Luckily, not everyone President Trump saw this week with is a high risk exposure. Here's who is.
Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Duluth International Airport on Sept. 30, 2020 in Duluth, Minn.Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Duluth International Airport on Sept. 30, 2020 in Duluth, Minn.Regular, every-day contact tracing for the coronavirus typically entails a health worker calling up to a dozen or so contacts of the person with the known infection.
But it's probably not realistic to ask every one of the President's potential contacts to quarantine and get tested. So how do health workers determine who's at serious risk?that he was showing symptoms as early as Wednesday, the most dangerous time probably started two to three days before that, experts say.an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
It's not known if the President wore a mask at all his recent appearances. But he's often appeared without one, andBut Lessler cautions, close-proximity contacts are not the only at-risk people. There is some risk for anyone who spent extended time in an indoor space with the President . There's some good news here. Many times, the toughest part of tracing contacts is remembering who you were close to.
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