Two more Trump staffers test positive for coronavirus after Tulsa rally
Source: CNN
(CNN)Two staffers who attended President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday tested positive for coronavirus, Trump's campaign said Monday. "After another round of testing for campaign staff in Tulsa, two additional members of the advance team tested positive for the coronavirus. These staff members attended the rally but were wearing masks during the entire event. Upon the positive tests, the campaign immediately activated established quarantine and contact tracing protocols," Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told CNN in a statement.
The two positive tests, first reported by CNBC, bring the total number of Trump advance team staffers in Tulsa who tested positive for coronavirus to eight. Hours before Trump's Saturday rally, the campaign said that six staffers working on the rally tested positive for coronavirus.
Murtaugh said in a statement then that "per safety protocols, campaign staff are tested for COVID-19 before events. Six members of the advance team tested positive out of hundreds of tests performed, and quarantine procedures were immediately implemented." "No COVID-positive staffers or anyone in immediate contact will be at today's rally or near attendees and elected officials," he said.
Attendees at Trump's rally were not required to wear a mask or practice social distancing, despite the Trump administration's top public health officials stressing the importance of both measures in preventing the spread of coronavirus. Several administration officials at the rally did not wear masks, though campaign manager Brad Parscale was seen in one. After Trump finished speaking in Tulsa, a person familiar with matter told CNN that two Secret Service agents had also tested positive for coronavirus.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/two-staffers-coronavirus-trump-rally/index.html
Journeyman
(15,023 posts)Otherwise, President Drink Bleach might have been infected.
(We'll know for certain in the next week or so.)
ace3csusm
(969 posts)They where already infected they just didnt test positive or didnt test at all...
SoFlaBro
(1,911 posts)Then they went home to spread it around D.C. a little more.
ace3csusm
(969 posts)Maybe they really dont want to flatten the line...its like watching a the Titanic sink over and over again eventually we have to say let sink.
Hock_Mir_Keyn_Chinek
(51 posts)that THEY have caused me to wish that each and every one of them get it, and that each and every one of them infect someone they care about, and that a whole bunch of them die, or suffer long-term debilitating after effects. I would have been horrified to hear myself utter such wishes earlier in my life. Now, I hope they all just go to blazes. The staff, the crew, the followers, and of course, Dear Leader himself.
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)I actually wish for bad things to happen to them. They couldn't care less about me, and that's exactly how I feel about their health.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)Note the claim to have "activated established quarantine and contact tracing protocols" in response to positive tests in staff and "per safety protocols, campaign staff are tested for COVID-19 before events".
But their own attendees were not required to wear masks or be tested and tRump has called the virus a hoax and balked on funding full, organized testing or contact tracing for the general public.
KY..............
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)Onwards to Arizona and Wisconsin
riversedge
(70,040 posts)umm. how close did they get to trump? trump family?
Nevilledog
(50,980 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,637 posts)For someone who wants to decrease testing, he seems to test a lot around himself.
He is finding too much of the Trumpvirus.