I realize that without further details made public we're left picking up scraps of info about the White House cluster, but putting together a list of people and their test results and speculating about their exposures is not "contact tracing".
Contact tracing is supposed to be a methodical effort by investigators to speak with known cases, ensuring they have support and are taking proper precautions, and also ask them about their close contacts so those people can be told they have been exposed and take proper action. 
Contact tracers:
-Let people know they may have been exposed and should monitor their health for signs and symptoms of the disease.
-Help people who may have been exposed get tested.
-Ask people to self-isolate if they have the disease or self-quarantine if a close contact.
-Let people know they may have been exposed and should monitor their health for signs and symptoms of the disease.
-Help people who may have been exposed get tested.
-Ask people to self-isolate if they have the disease or self-quarantine if a close contact.
There are likely many people beyond senior White House officials and high-profile politicians who have been exposed, such as family members, staff, media. Those of us looking in from afar are not in a position to do an actual contact tracing investigation on all these people.
It is another question entirely whether there is or will be a robust contact tracing investigation of the White House cluster. By all accounts, one has yet to be initiated. But, investigation by media report is poor substitute for actual contact tracing.
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