Even Fauci quarantined
COVID-19 is circling ever closer to the Oval Office: At least 11 Secret Service agents have tested positive for the coronavirus, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top Trump adviser, is now in “modified quarantine.”
The cases capped a rough week at the White House for diagnoses.
Since Monday, Ivanka Trump’s personal assistant has tested positive, as has one of the president’s valets and Katie Miller, Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary and wife of Trump adviser Stephen Miller.
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn and Robert Redfield, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are selfisolating for two weeks after exposure to Katie Miller, Politico reported.
Both Fauci and Redfield had no symptoms after “low-risk” exposures to a person at the White House who has COVID-19, Fauci and a rep for Redfield told CNN.
Fauci told the outlet he will quarantine and work from home, but that he might also go to his office at the National Institutes of Health, where no other staffers are working.
Fauci is among federal officials being tested every day for the coronavirus and had tested negative Friday, he said.
Redfield and Hahn are taking part in stricter twoweek quarantines and have also yet to test positive, CNN reported.
The measures come as President Trump continues to promote a reopening of the economy.
A prerecorded video aired on ESPN during Saturday’s UFC 249 broadcast, showing Trump congratulating UFC President Dana White and urging, “We love it ... We think it’s important. Get the sports leagues back. Let’s play.”