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WASHINGTON: Three key US officials. USA Those who guided the response to the coronavirus were quarantined on Saturday (May 9) after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, according to a spokesperson and media reports.
Anthony Fauci, a high-profile member of the White House coronavirus response team, is beginning a “modified quarantine” according to a CNN report. Fauci, 79, is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Robert Redfield “will be teleworking for the next two weeks” after a “low-risk exposure” Wednesday to a person in the White House who has the disease, the report said. The Washington Post on Saturday: Quoting a spokesperson. Redfield is 68 years old.
United States Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn, 60, is in quarantine for a couple of weeks after contacting someone who tested positive for COVID-19, a Reuters told Reuters on Friday. FDA spokesperson.
Hahn immediately performed a diagnostic test for the coronavirus and the results were negative, FDA spokesman Michael Felberbaum said in an emailed statement.
“As Dr. Hahn wrote today in a note to staff, he recently came in contact with a person who tested positive for COVID-19. According to CDC guidelines, he is now quarantined for the next two weeks,” the spokesperson said. from the FDA. said.
Politician reported that Hahn had contacted Katie Miller, the press secretary of the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence.
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Miller, the wife of one of President Donald Trump’s top advisers, tested positive on Friday, alarming about the potential spread of the virus within the White House’s inner circle.
The diagnosis by Miller, who is married to White House immigration adviser and speechwriter Stephen Miller, was revealed by Trump at a meeting with Republican lawmakers on Friday. A valet for Vice President Mike Pence also tested positive.
The White House declined to comment on any possible Fauci quarantine.
A NIAID representative did not respond to a request for comment.
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