CDC may lack contact information for some airline passengers possibly exposed to coronavirus

CDC may lack contact information for some airline passengers possibly exposed to coronavirus

The CDC may have trouble tracing some U.S. airline passengers who shared a flight with someone infected with coronavirus, a situation that could have been avoided had the federal government created a plan for sharing passenger data during an emergency like a disease outbreak — and now the agency and airlines are squabbling about who's at fault and how to fix the problem.

Politico/March 3, 2020