Great news: Coronavirus comes to White House
Time for the Trump family to get herd immunity or die! Trump is too old to live, after all, is obese and doesn't believe in exercise.
The valet (who is believed to serve the IMPOTUS meals) does NOT wear a mask while serving the President or family. He showed symptoms of covid19 Wednesday and is now quarantined in his quarters. Covid19 is believed to be most communicable during the 48 hours BEFORE symptoms show up. It takes 5 - 6 days after exposure for symptoms to show.
Since Trump has been exposed to the virus will he quarantine himself? Will he continue to expose himself to others?
Gov Abbott is supposed to visit Trump in the WH today. Will he be exposed to the virus? Abbott is over 60 and people with spinal cord injuries are especially at risk. Will he wear a mask in the WH?
Will Abbott, Trump and Pence set an example to Americans and continue to expose themselves without masks and social distancing? You know, like they want all Americans to do. After all, America has to get back to work and that means the IMPOTUS, VP, and Governor too.
If they can't get back to work, let them die, right?
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Trump personal valet tests positive for coronavirus, but White House says president is negative
PUBLISHED THU, MAY 7 202011:07 AM EDTUPDATED MOMENTS AGO
Dan Mangan @_DANMANGAN
Yelena Dzhanova @YELENADZHANOVA
Christina Wilkie @CHRISTINAWILKIE
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A personal valet for President Donald Trump, who among other things serves meals to the president, has tested positive for the coronavirus.A White House spokesman said that both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have since tested negative.Trump was “not happy” to learn his valet, who is a member of the military, had tested positive for the virus, which causes Covid-19.
A personal valet for President Donald Trump, who among other things serves meals to the president, has tested positive for the coronavirus, but a White House spokesman said that both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have since tested negative.
The valet, who is a member of the military, would have very close contact with Trump as he assisted the president with his food, clothes and other personal needs.
A White House official who spoke to NBC News said that the valet, who is0 a man, like other valets does not wear masks around the president.
The official said that Trump was “not happy” when he learned Wednesday that his valet had tested positive for the virus, which causes the Covid-19 disease that has already killed more than 73,000 Americans in the past several months.
A source with knowledge of the situation described it to NBC News as an “operational failure.”
That source said that everyone who works in close proximity to the president should be wearing masks.
“We were recently notified by the White House Medical Unit that a member of the United States Military, who works on the White House campus, has tested positive for Coronavirus,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement Thursday.
“The President and the Vice President have since tested negative for the virus and they remain in great health,” Gidley said.
Pence was en route to visit a health-care facility in Alexandria, Virginia as news broke about the valet.
The vice president did not wear a mask during his visit to the facility, which houses some patients with Covid-19. Pence did not respond to shouted questions from reporters about the valet being positive for coronavirus.
CNN first reported that the individual who tested positive is personal valet for Trump.
A Defense Department spokesman said, “As with any other service member who tests positive, the individual will quarantine in their residence, and will receive medical care as needed.”
The White House declined to say whether Trump planned to quarantine following news of his aide’s diagnosis.
The White House also declined to comment on whether the president’s wife Melania and their son Barron, or the vice president’s wife Karen had been tested after the valet tested positive.
As of noon Thursday, the president was still planning to meet with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott at 2 p.m. Two hours after that, Trump is scheduled to speak at the White House for a National Day of Prayer Service.
It was unclear whether Abbott’s visit would still continue as planned, or whether the governor would wear a mask following news of the White House valet’s diagnosis. Abbott’s spokesman John Wittman told CNBC at about 1 p.m. ET that the Republican governor was heading to the White House for the meeting.
Abbott appears to be in at least two higher-risk categories when it comes to coronavirus: He is over 60 years old, and he uses a wheelchair after an accident in 1984 left him partially paralyzed.
According to the Christopher Reeves Foundation, individuals with spinal cord injuries have weaker immunosuppression capabilities than the general population.
CNN reported that the individual who tested positive began displaying symptoms of the virus on Wednesday.
Based on what is currently known about coronavirus, the incubation period between when a person is first exposed and when they exhibit symptoms is, on average, five or six days.
It is unclear how contagious people are during this period. But according to Harvard Medical School’s coronavirus information center, “emerging research suggests that people may actually be most likely to spread the virus to others during the 48 hours before they start to experience symptoms.”
Trump has refused to wear a mask as a precaution against the coronavirus despite federal health guidance that suggests all Americans do so when in public and when unable to maintain a six-foot distance from other people.
Trump did not wear a mask Tuesday while touring the production area of a Honeywell factory in Phoenix, Arizona, which is manufacturing n95 masks for the Defense Department. Trump said Honeywell officials had told the White House that he did not need to wear a mask, despite signs at the factory reminding workers to wear masks at all times.
According to the White House Historical Society, there are few people who work more closely, physically speaking, with the president and his family than the president’s valet.
A position that dates back to George Washington, every president has had at least one valet who helps him to dress, maintains his clothes and sees to his personal needs within the residence.
“In addition to caring for the presidential clothing, valets were personal assistants, messengers, confidants, nurses, barbers, bartenders, waiters, public relations agents, and companions. Some were considered unofficial members of the first family,” the historical society writes on its page about valets.
Pence was criticized last week when he toured the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and did not wear a mask despite a policy there requiring masks for all staff, patients and visitors.
Pence did wear a mask during a visit two days later to a General Motors plant in Indiana that is making ventilators to help meet demand from hospitals treating patients with Covid-19.
There are more than 1.2 million Americans who have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. At least 73,431 people in the United States have died from Covid-19.
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