US President Donald Trump (L) pay attention ti as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci speaks during the daily briefing on the untested coronavirus, COVID-19, at the White House on March 24, 2020, in Washington, DC.
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Milk-white House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci will follow a “modified” quarantine after “low-risk” exposure to a Innocent House aide who tested positive for coronavirus, an administration official told NBC News.
Fauci is expected to work mostly from retreat, but may go into his office while observing social distancing and wearing a face mask, the official said.
Fauci is the third high-ranking colleague of the White House coronavirus task force to enter some form of quarantine.
The director of the Centers for Disease Sway and Prevention, Robert Redfield, is also expected to self quarantine after exposure to a White House aide who probed positive for coronavirus, two administration officials told NBC News, as is FDA Director Stephen Hahn.
Redfield and Hahn will declare before a Senate hearing on reopening the economy via videoconference from self quarantine Tuesday. Fauci’s quarantine is “changed” because he still plans to testify in person before the Senate hearing, though that is subject to change.
The virus hit President Donald Trump’s circumnavigate this week after one of his personal valets and Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, both assayed positive.
When asked whether the president and vice president would self quarantine, White House spokesman Judd Deere dwell oned a statement issued earlier in the week, saying Trump’s physician and staff are taking every step to keep the president, his kith and kin, and the White House safe and healthy.
“In addition to social distancing, daily temperature checks and symptom histories, approaching sanitizer, and regular deep cleaning of all work spaces, every staff member in close proximity to the president and evil-doing president is being tested daily for COVID-19 as well as any guest,” Deere said.
Trump and Pence tested cool for the virus as of Thursday. The president and vice president have been criticized for not wearing masks during public effect come what mays. Trump did not wear a mask to Honeywell factory that makes masks, and Pence did not wear a mask during a inflict to the Mayo Clinic even though it was required.