Reporter covering Biden tests positive for COVID-19

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

A member of the press who traveled with President-elect Joe Biden to Georgia on Tuesday has since tested positive for the novel coronavirus, leading the transition team to direct one of its communications staffers to quarantine out of an abundance of caution, Biden's office said.

The journalist received a positive COVID-19 test Wednesday, after serving in the Biden transition press pool on both Monday and Tuesday. Biden’s office said in a statement that officials “immediately” began contact tracing and determined that the member of the press was never in close contact with Biden as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“Out of an abundance of caution, one member of our traveling communications team who was in close contact with this individual will self-quarantine for 7 days and other members of the traveling press pool who were in close contact with this individual are not on pool duty today and will not be until they clear the window for being infectious,” Biden’s office said. “No other member of the President-elect's staff has been assessed to be at risk for exposure or transmission of the virus.”

The White House Correspondents’ Association in an email to reporters disclosing the positive test said the individual in question is experiencing “mild symptoms” and isolating so as not to spread the virus. The case was revealed just before Biden introduced Pete Buttigieg as his nominee for Transportation secretary in Wilmington, Del.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/530501-reporter-covering-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-19

[soothsayer]

1. Super

Hopefully they all wore masks and such

[FreepFryer]

2. Give Biden the fucking vaccine already

[Irish_Dem]

4. My sentiments exactly. Give Joe and Kamala the vaccine today. No more delay. nt

[LastDemocratInSC]

11. The vaccine is not immediately effective.

So every day means about 1 to 2 weeks until it is. And then the second dose as a booster.

Dr Fauci has urged them to do the vaccinations immediately.

[iluvtennis]

12. Heard on news that Joe and Kamala are scheduled to be vaccinated next week. nt

[Rebl2]

13. Should be tomorrow!

[FarPoint]

6. I agree...

It still will take minimum of 3 weeks to establish some level of immunity ...but then will need that second dose at week 3 to kick it up...

[zanana1]

3. I have a question about illness and the transition.

If, God forbid, Biden was infected with Covid 19 and did not survive, would Kamala be sworn in as president on Jan. 20? I know it's customary for the vice president to take the oath of the presidency if he dies or is too ill to perform his duties. but this would be during the transition, before Biden becomes president.
I haven't found any answers to this question. Can you help?

[csziggy]

7. As Vice-President Elect, Kamala Harris would be sworn in as President

President-elect succession

Scholars have noted that the national committees of the Democratic and Republican parties have adopted rules for selecting replacement candidates in the event of a nominee's death, either before or after the general election. If the apparent winner of the general election dies before the Electoral College votes in December the electors would likely be expected to endorse whatever new nominee their national party selects as a replacement. The rules of both major parties stipulate that if the apparent winner dies under such circumstances and his or her running mate is still able to assume the presidency, then the running mate is to become the President-elect with the electors being directed to vote for the former Vice Presidential nominee for President. The party's National Committee, in consultation with the new President-elect, would then select a replacement to receive the erstwhile Vice Presidential nominee's electoral votes for Vice President.

If the apparent winner dies between the College's December vote and its counting in Congress in January, the Twelfth Amendment stipulates that all electoral ballots cast shall be counted, presumably even those for a dead candidate. The U.S. House committee reporting on the proposed Twentieth Amendment said the "Congress would have 'no discretion' [and] 'would declare that the deceased candidate had received a majority of the votes.'"[12]

The Constitution did not originally include the term president-elect. The term was introduced through the Twentieth Amendment, ratified in 1933, which contained a provision addressing the unavailability of the president-elect to take the oath of office on Inauguration Day.[1] Section 3 provides that if there is no president-elect on January 20, or the president-elect "fails to qualify", the vice president–elect would become acting president on January 20 until there is a qualified president. The section also provides that if the president-elect dies before noon on January 20, the vice president–elect becomes president-elect. In cases where there is no president-elect or vice president–elect, the amendment also gives the Congress the authority to declare an acting president until such time as there is a president or vice president. At this point the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 would apply, with the office of the Presidency going to the speaker of the House of Representatives, followed by the president pro tempore of the Senate and various Cabinet officers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President-elect_of_the_United_States#President-elect_succession

[zanana1]

10. Thank you!

I've been wondering about it for awhile. After all, it's 2020 and we have to be ready for anything.

[BrightKnight]

15. So they could be dealing with something like Harris/Cuomo.

in the Whitehouse. They might want to get him the vaccine.

[Polybius]

16. A new VP requires a simple majority in the House and Senate first

I doubt Cuomo would be her first choice though.

[SunSeeker]

5. Keep Biden the fuck away from people until he is fully vaccinated! nt

[Rebl2]

14. Absolutely!

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

17. +1

[Mawspam2]

8. Which reporter was it?

Fox, Newsmax, OAN, Breitbart? Fucking terrorists.

[ananda]

9. I just tweeted Kamala Harris asking her and Joe..

to please get the vaccine ASAP!

.. for continuity of government.