Crown tests and mandatory mask at the White House

DPresident Donald Trump does not see recent cases of crown infections in the White House as a problem. At the same time, however, he ordered that government headquarters employees now have to wear masks as a precaution. He and Vice President Mike Pence are said to be exempt. The government has the situation “very well controlled,” Trump said Monday at the White House. Recent infections are not evidence that security precautions have not worked. “That can happen,” said Trump.

The new mask requirement applies to all public areas of government headquarters, but not to individual offices, as reported by several US media. Employees of the on-site office building should avoid visits to the White House as much as possible. The measures are designed to help prevent further spread of the coronavirus in the White House. Trump has been lobbying for days to loosen crown restrictions across the country so that the economy can recover. However, infections in the White House show how difficult it is to return to normal operations.

Trump does not want to wear a mask himself. “In my case, I am not approaching anyone,” Trump said. Therefore, it was not necessary for him to wear a mask, the president said at a press conference. He was standing on a podium in the White House garden, at a safe distance from employees and journalists. Trump had also recently given up on a mask on a trip to the state of Arizona. Back in April, when the CDC health agency recommended that Americans wear masks in public, Trump immediately distanced himself from it. He would not wear a mask, it was a voluntary measure, not a regulation, he said.

Trump tests himself daily

The American President, Vice President, and key employees who come into direct contact with them are now undergoing daily tests for the Corona virus. Trump said hundreds of people come to the White House every day, but so far there has only been one case of infection. In fact, two employees tested positive last week. Trump said three members of the White House Crown Task Force had simply been quarantined by contact with the person in question.

It was announced Friday that Vice President Mike Pence’s spokeswoman Katie Miller had tested positive for Corona. Subsequently, three senior members of the White House Crown Task Force, led by Pence, said, according to US media, that they would isolate themselves in their homes as a precaution: Trump immunologist and adviser Anthony Fauci, the head of the Department. of the United States Health (CDC), Robert Redfield, and the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Stephen Hahn. According to media reports, Pence does not want to quarantine, despite his spokesman’s infection.

Fauci, Redfield, Hahn and Deputy Minister of Health Brett Giroir will face the senators’ questions in a video conference on Tuesday. The audience is about “the safe return to work and school.” The Senate is dominated by the Republicans, Donald Trump’s party. The president blocked a Fauci statement in front of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives on the grounds that “the House of Representatives is a group of Trump’s enemies.”

Trump spent much of his press conference praising his government for its, in his opinion, successful fight against “the invisible enemy,” the new corona virus. He also claimed that Germany and the United States were the most successful countries in the world when looking at the number of deaths per 100,000 people. I was very proud of that.

According to Johns Hopkins University figures, this statement is not correct. Accordingly, there are approximately 24 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, nine in Germany. Other countries like Austria, Hungary, South Korea, and Finland have even lower death rates than Germany. Canada (13.5) and Portugal (11) also have significantly better values ​​than the United States.