Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday that he and his wife Karen will be tested for COVID-19 after one of his staffers came down with the illness.
“Given the unique position that I have as vice president and as the leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, both I and my wife will be tested for the coronavirus later this afternoon,” Pence told reporters during a White House press briefing.
The vice president said that neither he nor President Donald Trump had direct contact with the staffer.
Pence’s office had announced on Friday that the staff member tested positive for the coronavirus. Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff, said that the staffer had not been in the office since Monday.
Watch the vice president below:
Pence says he and his wife will be tested for the coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/D6rcG8nSWX
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) March 21, 2020
Testing on Demand!
It’s good to be the in-crowd.
Why not have yourselves tested right now?
BTW, per JHU, Italy’s death toll has now far exceeded China (as of this comment) = 4825
And the US moved up above Germany to the top five in the world with total confirmed infections = 23,480
Meanwhile:
How can this Irresponsible + Incompetent + Greedy Trump Regime still worry about their numbers?
Is the Trump Regime following the footsteps of Putin?
Addendum:
Meanwhile, Coverup Barr asks more emergency powers amidst pandemic…Imagine that, it certainly did not take weeks or months for the Trump Regime to take advantage of the crisis vs their response to the pandemic!
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/21/doj-coronavirus-emergency-powers-140023
I fully support the testing for VP Pence on national security grounds. I don’t know what the medical necessity or rush to test Karen is even if she and the COVID-19-positive staffer were an item. She does not need to be tested as long as she is asymptomatic.
Time to quarantine the white house and all those within until about,
mmmmmm november.
just to be safe on numerous levels.
The states should say no. And go about their business.
I have never trusted the employment numbers from this administration anyway, they were likely all cooked to please the President.