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As of right now, Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump will continue to work together with no plans of doing it separately even though pence is self-isolating due to one of his staff members testing positive for coronavirus.
Other White House members in some form of self-quarantine are Anthony Fauci, a high-profile member of the White House coronavirus response team, Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn, as of Saturday. All of them came in contact with Pence’s staff member also.
[Bloomberg [2]] Pence tested negative for coronavirus infection on Sunday but is staying home out of an abundance of caution, said the people, who asked not to be identified because his isolation hasn’t been publicly announced.
Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive for coronavirus on Friday. Miller is the primary spokeswoman for the White House coronavirus task force, which Pence leads and which last met on Thursday.
Miller’s diagnosis followed a positive test result earlier in the week for a member of the military who works as a valet to Trump. Miller is married to one of Trump’s closest aides, Stephen Miller.
This weekend three top U.S. health officials who are task force members announced they would take isolation measures. The heads of the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they would self-quarantine, while Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he would practice what he called a “modified” quarantine.
https://twitter.com/PMBreakingNews/status/1259604109897932800
BREAKING: Vice President Mike Pence is self-isolating away from the White House after an aide tested positive for the coronavirus https://t.co/KHsW2DJz5b [3]
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) May 10, 2020 [4]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to an intensive care unit, last month, after becoming the first leader of a major power to announce he had tested positive for the highly contagious respiratory virus.
While JohnsonForeign Secretary Dominic Raab deputized for Johnson during his convalescence.
This piece was written by Wayne Dupree on May 10, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com [5] and is used by permission.
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