The White House is refusing to cooperate with the CDC in doing contact tracing of the attendees at the Amy Coney Barrett Super Spreader Event. In other words, they are actively working to suppress information regarding the extent and spread of Covid-19 from an event where social distancing and mandatory mask requirements were ignored.
The Trump White House is going to dodge the question of how many people were infected by the Rose Garden event in the most obvious and criminal way: They've "decided" not to find out. They've also refused to give the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention authority to do that contact tracing themselves, despite the agency having scrambled a team to do just that.
There's little doubt as to what's going on here. The White House flagrantly ignored pandemic safety measures for their grave-dancing event, and it resulted in a new coronavirus outbreak that has now touched the House, Senate, White House, and allied conservative luminaries. Now they don't want federal officials to look too closely—or at all—at how the infections took place or what the ongoing spread might look like, because it would highlight their near-criminal irresponsibility, their incompetence, and the nontrivial possibility that Trump himself spread the virus at the event.
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