Hours after U.S. President Donald Trump revealed that he had examined constructive for the novel coronavirus, White Home Chief of Employees Mark Meadows mentioned he anticipated extra circumstances to come back.
“I totally anticipate that, as this virus continues to go on, different individuals within the White Home will definitely have a constructive check end result,” he instructed reporters Friday.
But a number of circumstances have already been confirmed amongst those that have had shut contact with Trump and his shut advisor, Hope Hicks, whose prognosis prompted the check that confirmed Trump had the virus.
A lot of these individuals attended a Sept. 26 occasion within the White Home Rose Backyard the place Trump formally nominated Amy Coney Barrett for the U.S. Supreme Court docket. Practically a dozen extra have been concerned in establishing the president’s first debate with Joe Biden on Sept. 29.
Right here’s who has examined constructive up to now.
Melania Trump
First woman Melania Trump’s prognosis was introduced together with Donald Trump’s by the president early Friday morning.
Melania tweeted later within the day that she is experiencing “delicate signs however general feeling good.” She didn’t journey together with her husband to Walter Reed Medical Heart, as an alternative quarantining contained in the White Home residency.
She attended Barrett’s nomination ceremony within the Rose Backyard on Saturday and has been travelling with the president since then.
Kellyanne Conway
Lawyer Common William Barr speaks with Kellyanne Conway after President Donald Trump introduced Decide Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court docket, within the Rose Backyard on the White Home, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Washington.
(AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
Trump’s former marketing campaign supervisor and counsellor to the president Kellyanne Conway confirmed she examined constructive late Friday.
In a tweet, Conway mentioned she is experiencing delicate signs together with a light-weight cough, and he or she is “feeling fantastic.”
“I’ve begun a quarantine course of in session with physicians,” she wrote. “As at all times, my coronary heart is with everybody affected by this international pandemic.”
Conway attended the Rose Backyard occasion Saturday, and was seen talking and not using a masks to others within the crowd, together with Lawyer Common William Barr.
She left the White Home in August to spend extra time together with her household.
Trump marketing campaign supervisor Invoice Stepien
Invoice Stepien, who has been managing Trump’s re-election marketing campaign since July, has examined constructive, a marketing campaign spokesperson confirmed to the Related Press and Politico.
Marketing campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh has confirmed the information, which was first reported by Politico.
Politico mentioned Stepien acquired his prognosis Friday and is experiencing “delicate flu-like signs.”
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Stepien, who joined Trump at Tuesday’s first presidential debate, plans to quarantine till he recovers.
Sen. Mike Lee
On this Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, picture, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, middle, steps out of the West Wing to look at as President Donald Trump broadcasts Decide Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court docket, within the Rose Backyard on the White Home in Washington.
(AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah mentioned in a press release Friday that he examined constructive the day earlier than, after experiencing signs “in keeping with longtime allergy symptoms.”
He mentioned he will probably be quarantining for the following 10 days and will probably be working from residence.
Lee additionally attended Barrett’s nomination ceremony and was seen on digital camera hugging different attendees with out sporting a masks.
As well as, Lee sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has been tasked with holding the hearings to verify Barrett to the Supreme Court docket.
Lee assured in his assertion that he will probably be again to work in time for these hearings, that are scheduled to start on Oct. 12.
Sen. Thom Tillis
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican, mentioned his COVID-19 check got here again constructive Friday night time.
“Fortunately, I’ve no signs and really feel effectively,” he mentioned, whereas urging his constituents to comply with public well being tips to restrict the virus’ unfold.
Like Lee, Tillis attended the Rose Backyard ceremony for Barrett and sits on the Judiciary Committee. Not like Lee, Tillis wore a masks on Saturday.
But Tillis additionally participated in a televised debate with the Democratic challenger for his Senate seat, Cal Cunningham, on Thursday night time.
White Home journalists
Up to now, three members of the White Home press pool have examined constructive, in response to a statement from White Home Correspondents Affiliation president and Related Press reporter Zeke Miller. The names of the journalists haven’t been launched.
At the least a type of journalists attended the Rose Backyard occasion on Saturday, whereas one other had travelled with the president by way of the weekend. The third attended Trump’s press convention on Sunday.
A number of different members of the press corps are self-isolating as they await testing. White Home medical employees are conducting contact tracing for the three constructive circumstances, Miller mentioned.
“We ask that in case you have been on the White Home grounds or within the swimming pools these days, that you simply pay additional consideration to any adjustments in your well being,” he instructed members in a press release.
Notre Dame College president John Jenkins
An electronic mail from Notre Dame College employees Friday confirmed its president, Rev. John Jenkins, examined constructive after a colleague of his was identified.
Jenkins was already in quarantine when he was examined this week after attending the Rose Backyard ceremony for Barrett, who earned her regulation diploma from Notre Dame College and was a college member there.
In a statement posted on the college’s web site shortly after the occasion, Jenkins mentioned he made an “error of judgment” by not sporting a masks in the course of the ceremony, and by shaking arms with numerous individuals within the Rose Backyard.
“I failed to guide by instance, at a time once I’ve requested everybody else within the Notre Dame group to take action,” he wrote. “I particularly remorse my mistake in mild of the sacrifices made each day by many, notably our college students, in adjusting their lives to watch our well being protocols.”
Hope Hicks
From left, White Home director of social media Dan Scavino, Counselor to the President Hope Hicks, particular assistant to the President and White Home journey director William Russell, and director of the White Home personnel John McEntee pay attention as President Donald Trump speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally at Harrisburg Worldwide Airport, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Middletown, Pa.
(AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)
Hope Hicks, one of many president’s most trusted and longest-serving confidantes, started feeling delicate signs in the course of the airplane journey residence from a Trump re-election marketing campaign rally in Duluth, Minn., Wednesday night, an administration official instructed the Related Press on situation of anonymity.
She was remoted from different passengers aboard the airplane and her prognosis was confirmed Thursday, the particular person mentioned.
Hicks, who serves as counsellor to the president, additionally accompanied him and different senior aides to the primary presidential debate in Cleveland on Tuesday.
She was ceaselessly seen not sporting a masks at a number of of those debates, whereas these round her — together with members of the president’s household — additionally didn’t have their faces lined.
Debate prep employees
In accordance with a statement from the Metropolis of Cleveland Friday, 11 individuals concerned with the planning and set-up of Tuesday’s presidential debate between Trump and Joe Biden have examined constructive.
The controversy was held at in an open-air pavilion shared by the Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve College. Whereas those that attended the controversy on behalf of Biden wore masks within the viewers, most of these with Trump didn’t.
A few of these circumstances are individuals from outdoors Ohio who could also be persevering with to journey, town mentioned.
Republican Occasion chairwoman Ronna McDaniel
An official with the Republican Nationwide Conference confirmed Friday to a number of media shops, together with the Related Press, that get together chairwoman Ronna McDaniel examined constructive Wednesday.
The official mentioned McDaniel has been at her residence in Michigan since final Saturday and didn’t attend the controversy.
The New York Instances reported McDaniel was final seen with the president on Sept. 25 — one week earlier than Trump examined constructive — though the GOP have but to verify when the 2 have been final in particular person collectively.
This record will probably be up to date as extra circumstances are confirmed
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