What Chuck Schumer doesn’t understand about contact tracing

Published May 12, 2020 5:39pm ET



What Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer doesn’t seem to understand about nationwide “contact tracing” for the coronavirus is that people don’t want it. (Nor do they need it, but that’s a different subject.)

It’s not a popular thing. And yet Schumer thought he nailed it on Monday when he tweeted, “If President Trump is making daily testing and contact tracing available or required for his own staff at the White House, why is he still refusing to do it for the country?”

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