As the US has seen coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths spike, and new cases rise to over 120,000 in a single day, we learn tonight that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and at least 4 other White House aides have now tested positive. According to Jennifer Jacobs from Bloomberg News who broke the story tonight: “Pains were taken to keep Meadows’ illness a secret, I’m told. And people around him who knew were told to keep quiet.”
Note that this week Meadows has been at crowded functions at campaign headquarters, the White House residences, met with the President, his family and guests, met with the VP and his staff, and was at the White House election night event, all without wearing a mask.
Don’t forget according to Trump that we’re rounding the corner “beautifully”, and that on November 4th after the election nobody would be talking about “COVID, COVID, COVID.” I guess Meadows and 120,000+ people didn’t get the memo.
11/7 update: it’s now 7 confirmed cases - Meadow, 5 WH staff, 1 campaign aide. Other White House/campaign staff are understandably upset this morning, as they learned from the breaking news story that they’ve been exposed - allegedly neither Meadows nor the WH/campaign notified those who have been in proximity.
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