Trump coronavirus: Who closest to the US president has tested positive for COVID-19? | US News

Several cases have been confirmed among those who have had close contact with Donald Trump and his assistant Hope Hicks, whose diagnosis led to the test that confirmed that the president of the United States had the coronavirus.

The period between infection and illness can be anywhere from a few days to two weeks, so you could have contracted it multiple times and from multiple people.

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Here’s a rundown of some of those involved so far:

Positive tests:

Donald Trump, 74

US President Since 2016, he has seen his campaign effectively suspended after testing positive for COVID-19.

He was in the Rose Garden of the White House on Saturday, September 26, to announce the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. She attended a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday night and another event in Ohio on Monday.

He was at a fundraiser and rally Wednesday in Minnesota, where he gave a shorter-than-usual speech.

By Thursday morning, Trump would have been aware of Hope Hicks’ positive test result. Despite this, he went ahead with a fundraising trip to his golf club in New Jersey. According to public health guidelines, he should have been isolated, having been in close proximity to someone infected with the virus.

In the early hours of Friday, after returning from the New Jersey event, he tweeted to say that he and his wife had tested positive and were in isolation.

Hope Hicks, 31

Presidential adviser and former director of communications for the White House. She is a close confidant of Trump.

Ms. Hicks was not at the Rose Garden event on September 26.

He was part of the team that traveled with Trump to Cleveland for the presidential debate on Tuesday. He returned a negative test Wednesday morning and joined others for the trip to Minnesota that day. It was in Minnesota that he reported feeling unwell.

She was kept separate from the others for the first leg of the trip (by plane) and did not take the crowded Marine One back to the White House. On Thursday morning her test came back positive. Those who had been close to her were not immediately informed.

Melania Trump, 50 years old

First lady, wife of Donald Trump.

She often travels with her president husband and was at the Rose Garden event in late September.

Her diagnosis was announced at the same time as her husband’s on Friday, October 2.

She tweeted later in the day that she was experiencing “mild symptoms” and that “overall she felt fine,” adding: £ “I look forward to a speedy recovery.”

Kellyanne Conway, 53

Former presidential adviser who left the White House in August.

She was at the Rose Garden event on Saturday, sitting in the front row.

Photographs from the event showed a few hundred people sitting together, many without masks, including Ms. Conway.

She tweeted: “My symptoms are mild (mild cough) and I feel fine.”

Senator Mike Lee, age 49

A Utah Republican, Lee was also at the Rose Garden last Saturday and met with Amy Coney Barrett, who was announced as Trump’s choice for the vacant seat on the US Supreme Court, a few days later.

He announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, after a negative result earlier in the week.

Senator Thom Tillis, age 60

Republican of North Carolina and member of the Judiciary Committee.

He had a negative test before attending the White House Rose Garden event on Saturday and met with Trump’s Supreme Court candidate Coney Barrett on Wednesday. Tillis was photographed wearing a mask at Saturday’s event, but not at Wednesday’s meeting.

On Thursday night he participated in a debate with the Democratic candidate for his Senate seat, Cal Cunningham. They both wore masks.

Tillis revealed her positive test result on Friday. Mr. Cunningham has said that the test will be done.

Senator Ron Johnson, 65

Republican Senator from Wisconsin.

Johnson was not at the Rose Garden event on Sept. 26, as he was already isolating himself from another possible coronavirus exposure, his spokesman said.

His quarantine tests came back negative, but he is believed to have contracted the virus “shortly after” returning to Washington DC on September 29, testing positive on Friday, October 2.

He is the third Republican senator to test positive, but he has no symptoms.

John Jenkins, 65

The president of the University of Notre Dame, Mr. Jenkins is another person who was at the Rose Garden event last Saturday and who announced his positive test result on Friday.

University Vice President Paul Browne said in a statement that Mr. Jenkins “learned that a colleague with whom he has been in regular contact has tested positive for COVID-19.”

Bill Stepien, 42

The president’s campaign manager also tested positive for the coronavirus and is experiencing “mild flu-like symptoms.”

Trump’s immediate campaign events have been canceled, and his next debate with Democrat Joe Biden, scheduled for Oct. 15, is now in doubt.

Chris Christie, 58

The former New Jersey governor, who helped Trump prepare for the televised presidential debate in Cleveland last Tuesday, revealed on Saturday that he had tested positive.

He had spent several days helping the president prepare for his confrontation with Biden.

Mr. Christie is overweight and was admitted to the hospital in 2011 with an asthma attack. He said later Saturday that he was checking into a hospital as a precaution.

Nick Luna

Assistant to the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Oval Office.

Known as one of Trump’s bodyguards, Luna was in close contact with the president until Thursday.

She traveled with him to the television debate in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday, a rally and fundraiser in Minneapolis on Wednesday, and was aboard Air Force One when his assistant Hope Hicks began experiencing symptoms.

Luna had planned to accompany Trump to Bedminster, New Jersey on Thursday, but decided against it after Hicks began self-isolating and later tested positive.

He himself tested positive on Saturday.

Three journalists

The trio tested positive Friday after spending the past weekend at the White House or traveling with Trump, according to Zeke Miller, president of the White House Correspondents Association.

Negative tests:

Joe Biden, age 77

Democratic presidential candidate Biden debated Trump in Cleveland on Tuesday.

Unlike Trump, Biden has regularly worn a mask when in public. However, during exchanges, he did not wear one.

Many people in the audience, including Trump’s relatives, were also not wearing masks.

Both Biden and his wife Jill tested negative on Friday.

Kamala Harris, 55

Biden’s running mate, a vice presidential candidate, underwent a routine test and the result came back negative Thursday.

Amy Coney Barrett, 48

Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court was at the Rose Garden event on September 26 to accept her nomination to the Supreme Court.

He recovered from a confirmed case of coronavirus earlier this year.

Mike Pence, 61

The vice president of the United States and his wife Karen tested negative on Friday morning.

Pence was reportedly in the Oval Office with the president on Tuesday and was last seen publicly with him at a press conference on Monday.

William Barr, 70

The United States Attorney General was at the Rose Garden event on September 26 and was seen without a mask, speaking with Ms. Conway, but tested negative on Friday, a Justice Department spokesman said.