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President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has been diagnosed with the coronavirus as the nation sets daily records for confirmed cases of the pandemic.
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“I’m not going to speak through a mask,” Meadows said as she left Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing. Source: Reuters
Two senior administration officials confirmed that Meadows had tested positive for the virus, which has killed more than 236,000 Americans so far this year.
More than 140,000 Americans contracted Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, a new record.
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There is a new unwanted high in the US: 140,000 new coronavirus cases. Source: US ABC.
Meadows traveled with Trump in the lead up to Election Day and last appeared in public this week without a mask when Trump falsely declared victory in the vote count.
He had been one of Trump’s closest associates when the president contracted the virus more than a month ago, but was tested daily and kept his regular work hours.
Last month, she refused to wear a mask at the request of a reporter after Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing.
