The genetic sequences of two coronavirus cases linked to the White House could ultimately help researchers identify the origins the White House outbreak — and whether it went on to infect others, according to a preprint study posted online on Sunday.

Following several Covid-19 cases linked to the White House in early October, including President Donald Trump‘s, CNN reported that the administration rebuffed offers to help with contact tracing – one tool that could have tracked how the virus spread around and beyond the White House.

In October, a White House spokesman called the origin of the cases there “unknowable.” The preprint study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal, says that’s not necessarily the case.

The study says the White House Covid-19 outbreak seems to descend …continued .
[Original Source: CNN]