WASHINGTON D.C. — (03-20-20) — Early Friday evening the office of Vice President Mike Pence released a statement saying that a member of his staff has tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus.
More than a dozen lawmakers have entered voluntary self-quarantine amid the COVID-19 outbreak, and more are expected — testing Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s proclamation last week that Congress will be “the last to leave.”
The statement from Vice President Mike Pence’s Press Secretary Katie Miller says that on Friday they were “notified that a member of the Office of the Vice President tested positive for the Coronavirus.”
They also stress that “further contact tracing is being conducted in accordance with CDC guidelines.”
“Neither President Trump nor Vice President Pence had close contact with the individual,” the statement read.
Vice President Pence is at the White House’s coronavirus task force and integral to the daily briefings on the government response.
This is a breaking story and may be updated with more information as it becomes available.
No comment on from president Trump’s press secretary.
Needless to say reaction was quick!
Breaking: Member of @VP‘s Staff Tested Positive for Coronavirus. Statement by @VPPressSec: pic.twitter.com/COOY0jB0Os
— Fin Gomez (@finnygo) March 20, 2020
Right. Because that member of staff never touched anything like a door or a folder or a pen or a lectern that @VP or @realDonaldTrump may have touched.
These people are blasé to the point of stupidity.
— Peter Briggs ?? (@peterbriggs) March 20, 2020
Well I guess @VP is now in self quarantine for the next 2 weeks. @realDonaldTrump will need to head the #COVID19US task force. OMG good luck to the rest of them.
— ethel dutiaume (@EDutiaume) March 21, 2020
“It was just some coffee boy, no one knows the guy”.
Suddenly photo’s of the “coffee boy” begin to surface in every cabinet meeting, rally, at the Pence’s last barbecue, in a headlock by Pence last week just playing around in the office etc…— A. W. (@FultertonAW) March 21, 2020
As more details are released on this story, we will bring it to you.
Article by: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer
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