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White House Staff Use Social Distancing, Get Tested Daily: Meadows
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1:37Now PlayingWhite House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows says they have "safety protocols in place" if and when the president, who is still infected with COVID-19, decides to go back to work in the Oval Office.
"His schedule right now is fluid, we're looking at his prognosis from a health standpoint, he wanted to go to the Oval yesterday. If he decides to go the Oval, we've got safety protocols there," said Meadows while talking to reporters on the White House driveway Wednesday.
"Not only from a PPE standpoint, but from a ventilation standpoint in the Oval where we can actually work to that in as well. "
This comes after President Donald Trump, said to be making progress in his recovery, tweeted his eagerness to return to the campaign trail even as the outbreak that has killed more than 210,000 Americans reached ever more widely into the upper echelons of the U.S. government.
As Trump convalesced out of sight in the White House on Tuesday, the administration defended the protections it has put in place to protect the staff working there to treat and support him.
Trump again publicly played down the virus on Twitter after his return from a three-day hospitalization, though even more aides tested positive, including one of his closest advisers, Stephen Miller.
Trump was working out of makeshift office space on the ground floor of the White House residence, in close proximity to the White House Medical Unit's office suite, with only a few aides granted a face-to-face audience.
The West Wing was largely vacant, as a number of Trump's aides were either sick or quarantining after exposure to people infected with the virus, or otherwise working remotely as a precaution.
"We actually know that some of the infection here within the White House did not come from that event (Amy Comey Barrett announcement) because of the number of people that we have," said Meadows.
"We know exactly or we believe we know exactly where that infection came from. And so so did do do it from a causal standpoint and suggested that was the cause would just not be accurate."
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