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NEW YORK (Dagbladet): – Vice President Mike Pence isolated himself from the White House after a staff member was diagnosed with coronavirus on Friday, according to several people familiar with the situation. Pence has repeatedly tested negative for covid-19, including today, I am told, writes Jennifer Jacobs, senior at Bloomberg News in twitter.
Bloomberg News writes about self-imposed isolation.
– Not quarantined
But Pence has clearly decided not to follow the Trump administration’s own recommendation that it should quarantine for 14 days if it has had close contact with someone who tests positive.
In recent days, both Vice President Mike Pence’s press spokesperson Katie Miller and a military officer who worked closely with President Donald Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus. This has caused further chaos in the White House, according to various US media, Dagbladet wrote earlier this weekend.
Miller is also married to Trump’s close senior adviser, Stephen Miller.
Pence spokesman Devin O’Malley told the AP on Sunday night that Pence voluntarily restricts contact with other people, noting that he has regularly tested negative for covid-19.
Vice President Pence will continue to follow the advice of the White House medical unit and is not in quarantine. Also, Vice President Pence has tested negative every day and plans to return to the White House tomorrow, O’Malley told the AP on Sunday night.
Not in a meeting
Pence did not attend a meeting on Saturday with President Donald Trump and military leaders. The vice president should again have tested negative for coronavirus on Sunday.
“But he stays home to be safe,” writes the news site.
For NBC News, a Trump administration official says Pence “continues to test negative” and that there are “no restrictions” on his activities, but that he “be careful” he must keep “a low profile” for a few days. . The employee believes this is “less than” self-isolation. This is what NBC White House employee Geoff Bennett writes twitter.
Quarantine
On Sunday, it became clear that another Central American politician, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee will enter a self-imposed quarantine for 14 days. This happens after his political adviser tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday.
“After discussing this with the Senate medical officer, Senator Alexander decided to be extremely cautious and not return to Washington DC and he will quarantine Tennessee for 14 days,” his chief of staff said, according to NTB.
Therefore, Alexander chooses a completely different approach than Vice President Pence.
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– fear
The White House is now fighting hard to convince Americans that it is safe to reopen parts of the country while fighting the virus.
– Going to work is scary. I think it would have been much safer if he were sitting at home instead of going to the west wing (in the White House journal). It is a small and crowded place. It is a little risky. But you do what you have to do because you have to serve your country, one of Trump’s top economic advisers, Kevin Hassett, tells CBS News.
Anyone now facing Trump must now test negative for the corona virus.
Meeting without mask
Until recently, Trump and Pence had kept very close to each other without face masks. Both have been criticized for not pursuing social distancing. Several have also pointed out how the president and vice president may have to stay apart to reduce the risk of both being affected by the coronavirus at the same time.
After Pence learned that his spokesperson was infected with crowns on Friday, he still decided to go to Iowa.
There he met, among other things, several top executives from the food industry. A video The Intercept released of the event shows how top executives are told to remove their face masks before meeting with Pence.
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Quarantine
The situation has led to at least three members of Trump’s effort to combat the crown virus quarantine. All three are the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Stephen Hahn, who is in charge of drug and vaccine approvals, and Robert Redfield, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC), which corresponds to the Norwegian INSP. Leading infection expert Anthony Fauci has also been quarantined.
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