Vice President Mike Pence among dozens of high-level politicians and dignitaries at a Rose Garden event at the White House last weekend, when President Donald Trump announced Amy Coney Barrett as his choice to succeed the past due to a ruling on Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the country’s high court. .
At least eight other people who attended the occasion on Saturday, adding the president, tested positive for coronavirus and few participants wearing masks.
The Rose Garden event, combined with recently published white house images, shows a busy ceo and his number 2 in business taking fundamental precautions to restrict the spread of coronavirus.
The result? An obvious laissez-faire attitude towards the new coronavirus that now raises concerns about health and national security, with Pence accelerating his crusade schedule while Trump remains hospitalized.
Experts ask why a user on Pence’s stage is not remote eer to his threat of exposure or to Trump’s White House vulnerability.
“We have the president and the first child in poor health and the counterattack is in a vulnerable situation,” former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told USA Today on Friday. “We have to be very prepared to face the option of an opponent checking in to take credit for it. “
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The White House and national security agencies will need to act temporarily to ensure that the chain of command is secure and that the military is in a position to respond promptly to provocations or attacks, said Panetta, who also served as Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton.
The COVID-19 pandemic, the recession, and Trump’s doubts about electoral integrity can embolden the parties to the conflict to control the United States, Panetta added.
On Friday, Pence spokesman Devin O’Malley tweeted that Pence remains “healthy,” adding that he was reviewed for COVID-19. A check on Saturday also came back negative, a management official said.
O’Malley told USA TODAY via email Saturday night that Pence’s doctor had decided that CDC rules related to close contact with a positive user to COVID, in particular contact within 6 feet and/or more than 15 minutes, and going within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms – did not occur.
In addition, the same White House doctor has made the decision that the vice president is in good physical shape and cannot talk about his general activities, since he continues to be examined daily and is in contact with the regime of the medical unit of the White House.
CDC rules state that anyone who has had close contact with a user who has symptoms of COVID or tested positive deserves to isolate themselves for 14 days and stay at least six feet away from others at all times. the CDC explains how to be within six feet of the user for at least 15 minutes within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. However, the rules involve several warnings and indicate that there is inadequate knowledge of what It deserves to calculate the duration of prolonged exposure.
As a precautionary measure, Vice President Pence worked from the vice president at the Naval Observatory on Friday and Saturday to restrict contact with potentially in close contact with other positive people at COVID, O’Malley said.
Meanwhile, Trump’s crusade announced Saturday afternoon that Pence would make public appearances before the November election, adding that he would visit the state of Indiana at home later in the week.
Under the 25th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, the president can simply tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DS, and Senate majority member, Senator Charles Grassley, Republican for Iowa, that he cannot carry out the purposes of his office, moving force to Pence, who is first in the line of succession.
The scope of Trump’s illness is unclear Saturday, with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and White House doctor Sean Conley conducting other tests of the president’s condition.
Meadows told The Associated Press that the president’s important symptoms for more than 24 hours were “very worrying” and that the next 48 hours would be in his care.
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Conley, for his part, said Saturday that the president “is doing very well. “
At a morning news convention where he refused to answer express questions about the president’s fever and whether the oxygen from his positive test, Conley said Trump’s mild cough, nasal congestion and fatigue were “improving. “
Conley’s comments Saturday morning also raised new questions about the Trump disease timeline, when it is likely contagious and the extent of Pence’s exposure to COVID-19.
At least eight other people who attended the Rose Garden event on September 26 in which they delivered the appointment of Judge Barrett have since shown that they have the virus. They come with the first lady, former Trump producer Kellyanne Conway, U. S. Senator Mike Lee of Utah and University of Notre Dame President Reverend John Jenkins.
Photos of the rose lawn show Pence sitting in the front row with members of Trump’s family; an alley separates him from Melania Trump; Kellyanne Conway sat the first lady without delay; Lee from Utah was sitting directly to Pence.
White House photos show Barrett, his sons, Trump, the first girl and others sitting near the Oval Office before the announcement. None of them wear masks. Barrett tested negative for COVID-19.
In addition, recently released White House “Photos of the Week” includes photographs of Pence and Trump holding meetings and holding indoor receptions. None of the photographs are masked either, and in the maximum cases there is little evidence that social estating patterns, which recommend that Americans are separated by 6 feet, has remained.
On Friday, Pence’s workplace released a message from his doctor, saying he was smart for the vice president to continue in the workplace. These comments were collected through O’Malley on USA Today on Saturday night.
“According to the rules of the Centers for Disease Control [and Prevention](CDC), the vice president is not in close contact with others who have tested positive for COVID,” President Donald Trump added.
“Vice President Mike Pence doesn’t want to quarantine,” the memo says. “Vice President Mike Pence remains healthy and on the loose to talk about his general affairs. “
However, medical experts have stated that COVID-19 may take up to 14 days to manifest, so they proposed quarantine for others who are in close contact with a user who has tested positive for the disease.
Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard TH, Chan Public Health School, said Friday that he had the idea that if an exposed user can be examined frequently, such as Pence possibly, she could safely resume her life after about a week of negative testing.
They’ve been isolated until then, he said.
Eric Feigl-Ding, epidemiologist of the Federation of American Scientists, a group of experts, is expected to quarantine for at least a week after his last meeting with the president.
That would be at least until next Tuesday.
Pence’s workplace has not yet published its next calendar, however, the Trump-Pence Crusade published on a Saturday saying the vice president has a full list of ongoing occasions in the coming days.
Pence is for discussion with Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, October 7 in Utah.
And “Operation MAGA,” Trump’s crusade said, will lead the vice president to “get key states” after Wednesday’s debate.
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Trump’s crusade announced early Saturday that Pence was making plans to reunite his supporters Thursday at a recently announced crusade closure in Phoenix. From there, you’ll go home to the state of Indiana to vote early.
Pence’s workplace has so far published some main points on the precautions or mitigation measures it is taking to restrict the threat of COVID-19 spreading those events.
Harris arrived in Utah on Saturday to prepare for the debate, and Politico reported that due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the White House, Pence and Harris will be 12 feet aside instead of 7 feet.
The Arizona demonstration will take place abroad, Crusade officials showed Saturday in the Republic of Arizona, and the crusade reminds attendees of the “inherent risk” of such events.
The online page for Pence’s appearance on Thursday does not particularly mention that masks are necessary, however a crusade official said that all players would go through a temperature check, get a mask that he encouraged to wear, and have access to a hand sanitizer.
Details of Pence’s arrest in Indiana have yet to be published.
Ginger Rough is the news director of IndyStar.
This report compiled from reports through Lawrence Andrea and Brooke Kemp of IndyStar, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Ronald J. Hansen of the Republic of Arizona, and Karen Weintraub, Dinah Pulver, John Fritze, Michael Collins, David Jackson, Maureen Groppe and Tom Vanden Brook of USA TodayArray