Coronavirus Creeping Closer to Trump, White House Staffers Say
May 11, 2020
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as posted by the channelAround the White House reporters say there's a growing feeling of concern that the coronavirus may be creeping closer to the people the President of the United States is in close contact with.
Associated Press White House reporter Darlene Superville says she was at the White House three days last week — including a double visit to the Oval Office in one day — and says there's unease.
"Everyone is passing each other in these narrow hallways, going back and forth to multiple meetings every day, so, there is definitely a feeling of concern there among staffers in the White House and those particularly in the West Wing," she says.
The Trump administration's leading health experts on safely dealing with the novel coronavirus will be testifying in a Senate hearing by a videoconference this week after three of them and the committee's chairman were exposed to people who tested positive for COVID-19.
Vice President Mike Pence himself self-isolated for the weekend after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19. Pence leads Trump's coronavirus task force.
The images of top administration officials taking such precautions come as states seek to loosen economic restrictions put in place to mitigate the virus' spread.
Superville says she's seeing more reporters taking precautions during presidential press briefings.
"You are seeing a lot more masks a lot more people are using hand sanitizer," she says.
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