Nearly 900 Secret Service employees got COVI

[douglas9]

Nearly 900 Secret Service employees tested positive for COVID-19 between March 1, 2020 and March 9, 2021, according to government records obtained by CREW. The vast majority served in protection jobs, either as Special Agents or in the Uniformed Division.

The records obtained by CREW show that in the first year of the pandemic, 881 active Secret Service employees were diagnosed with COVID. The list consists of 477 Special Agents, 249 members of the Uniformed Division, 131 working in Administrative, Professional, Technical Positions, 12 Investigative Protection Officers and 12 Technical Security Investigators. The records, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, do not include the names or assignments of those who tested positive.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/nearly-900-secret-service-employees-got-covid/

[Throck]

1. I wonder how many had access to the vaccine and declined?

And why?

[brush]

2. Boy, being in close contact with trump's unmasked cabal really took its toll on the SS.

I'm betting the SS is glad the orange blob is gone and off to his dotage...something the prodigious one doesn't even realize yet as he thinks (hopes?) he's to be re-installed in August.

[Yonnie3]

3. That's not a lot more cases than the general population

Worldometer shows 10% of the US had COVID. The 881 is approximately 13% of the SS employees.

The highest percentage (19%) was in the Uniformed Division which would be the most public facing jobs.

[area51]

4. I wonder if the entire Trump family

were asymptomatic carriers.

[BlueStater]

5. Probably due to all the mask-less rallies President Shitstain dragged them to. n/t

[TheRickles]

6. Of those agents who tested positive, how many were symptomatic?

It's not mentioned in the article, but it's an important piece of information. It would also be helpful to know how many had severe symptoms and were hospitalized. Usually the % of PCR-positive people who are symptomatic is quite low (for example, in studies of NFL players), but the commonly accepted usage is to call them "cases".

Asymptomatic people who test positive on the PCR are poor spreaders (no coughing and sneezing), so it's something of a stretch to call them "cases" rather than people with an abnormal lab value. Not to minimize the dangers of Covid, but this approach to labeling seems somewhat misleading even though it's the basis of our public health guidelines.

[peppertree]

7. Superspreader

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. TFG is an asshole

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