Washington, D.C.

Second wave: Coronavirus cases among White House staffers and others in Trump’s orbit continued to mount this week as Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Chief of Staff

Mark Meadows, and campaign adviser David Bossie tested positive for the virus. Carson, a cancer survivor, tested positive on Monday after going to an East Room election-night party attended by some 400 people, many of whom did not mask or socially distance. Meadows also attended, and tested positive a day later. Bossie had been traveling to battleground states while overseeing President Trump’s legal challenges to the election results. Six other White House aides also tested positive for the virus—all potentially part of an outbreak believed to have ignited Sept. 26 during a celebration of Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination. Asked where he contracted the virus, Carson said, “probably somewhere, out there in the universe.”