Katie Miller, Vice President Mike Pence's spokesperson and wife of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, has tested positive for the coronavirus by MattRyanPerez
Katie Miller, Vice President Mike Pence’s spokesperson and wife of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, according toMarc Short, Chief of Staff for Vice President Mike Pence talks with Katie Miller, Pence's pressPress secretary Kayleigh McEnany confirmed during Friday’s briefing that a member of Pence's staff had been infected with the coronavirus, though did not specify whom.
During a meeting in which Republican members of Congress gathered together without wearing face masks, Trump seemed to confirm the person in question was Miller, calling her “a press person” and remarking,"She’s a wonderful young woman, Katie, she tested very good for a long period of time and then all of a sudden today she tested positive.”
The White House has moved to testing staffers daily since a personal valet to President Trump tested positive for the virus on Thursday.to pull six staffers off Air Force Two following Miller’s positive diagnosis. All tested negative.While the sudden positive diagnosis seems to illustrate the need for widespread testing, Trump took a different lesson from the incident."This is why the whole concept of tests aren’t necessarily great.
Even before the two staffers tested positive this week, both Trump and Pence have faced pressure over not wearing. In April, Pence was heavily criticized for visiting the Mayo Clinic without wearing a mask, something he called a mistake later. Trump visited a Honeywell facility that manufactures N95 masks on Tuesday, refusing to don a mask despite signs warning they were required. Earlier on
, Trump met with World War II veterans in their 90s without a mask. McEnany said, “This president will make the decision as to whether to wear a mask or not . . . IThe United States leads all countries in confirmed cases of the coronavirus with 1,271,775, nearly a third of all cases globally. It also leads in reported deaths, with 76,368, over double the second-leading country in the United Kingdom.
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