When local health officers, her friends and former colleagues, set out to find these possibly infected Americans, and make sure that they were following orders to quarantine, they discovered that the CDC officials who had met them upon arrival had not bothered to take down their home addresses. When local health officers called the CDC to say how hard it was to track down John Smith when the CDC had listed his residence as “Los Angeles International Airport,” the CDC said, “Just don’t follow up on them.” What was the point of having these travel restrictions from Wuhan if the federal
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