Many of the returning Americans had passed through airports in California, and Charity had seen the ineptitude with which they’d been handled. The CDC hadn’t bothered to test them—not even the people returning from Wuhan. 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
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