Well, it's what we expected. The New York Times reports that the Trump team "has decided not to trace the contacts of guests and staff members" at the superspreading White House Rose Garden celebration for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, the apparent source of infection for at least three Republican senators and numerous other people.
The Trump White House is going to dodge the question of how many people were infected by the Rose Garden event in the most obvious and criminal way: They've "decided" not to find out. They've also refused to give the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention authority to do that contact tracing themselves, despite the agency having scrambled a team to do just that.
There's little doubt as to what's going on here. The White House flagrantly ignored pandemic safety measures for their grave-dancing event, and it resulted in a new coronavirus outbreak that has now touched the House, Senate, White House, and allied conservative luminaries. Now they don't want federal officials to look too closely—or at all—at how the infections took place or what the ongoing spread might look like, because it would highlight their near-criminal irresponsibility, their incompetence, and the nontrivial possibility that Trump himself spread the virus at the event.
Similarly, the White House has been steadfastly hiding Trump's COVID-19 test results in the days before the official announcement of his infection—quite possibly because Trump had tried to hide the infection, possibly exposing Democratic candidate Joe Biden to the virus during last Tuesday’s 90-minute debate.
They're going to try to hide it all. And that likely means some of the White House's most fervent supporters won't be told that they, too, were exposed to the virus. They don't care. They literally don't care.
The debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris needs to be called off. It cannot go forward when the White House is actively hiding COVID-19 infections. It's irresponsibly dangerous, and as head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Mike Pence is in large part responsible for it.