President Donald Trump leaves the White House for Walter Reed medical center to get treatment for Covid-19. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The White House’s contact tracing efforts aren’t going well.

Tracing the close contacts of people known to be infected with Covid-19 is a basic strategy in the fight against the pandemic — something that’s supposed to be a given, and has helped countries like Germany and South Korea gradually open up again.

But after President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House and his administration don’t seem to have done much, if any, contact tracing for the Covid-19 cluster surrounding the president.

According to Abigail Abrams and Lissandra Villa at Time magazine, local and state officials in places Trump recently visited haven’t heard from the White House about contact tracing. Michael Bender and Rebecca Ballhaus reported for the Wall Street