Justice Brett Kavanaugh tests positive for the coronavirus, but has no symptoms
3 years, 3 months ago

Justice Brett Kavanaugh tests positive for the coronavirus, but has no symptoms

LA Times  

Justice Brett Kavanaugh tested positive for the coronavirus despite being vaccinated, the Supreme Court said Friday. It’s the first time the court has reported that a sitting justice has tested positive for the virus, although Amy Coney Barrett had COVID-19 last year before she joined the high court. Justice Kavanaugh’s wife, Ashley, and daughters, all of whom are fully vaccinated, tested negative for the virus, the court said. Former President Trump and Melania Trump, who attended the ceremonies for Trump’s other two high court appointees — Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch — did not attend nor did President Biden.

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US President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19 again
2 years, 5 months ago

US President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19 again

Live Mint  

Days after testing negative for noval coronavirus, United States President Joe Biden was tested or COVID-19 again on 30 July, an official statement from White House said. "After testing negative on Tuesday evening, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning and Friday morning, the President tested positive late Saturday morning, by antigen testing," the White House said. "As described last week, acknowledging the …

Biden again tests positive for coronavirus, returns to isolation
2 years, 5 months ago

Biden again tests positive for coronavirus, returns to isolation

LA Times  

President Biden tested positive for the coronavirus again Saturday. President Biden tested positive for the coronavirus again Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of a “rebound” infection after antiviral drug treatment. White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a letter that Biden “has experienced …

Fauci tests positive for virus, has mild COVID-19 symptoms
2 years, 6 months ago

Fauci tests positive for virus, has mild COVID-19 symptoms

Associated Press  

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of America’s pandemic response through two White House administrations, has tested positive for the coronavirus. The 81-year-old Fauci, who is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots, was experiencing mild COVID-19 symptoms, according to a statement Wednesday from the National Institutes of Health. Earlier this week, U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra tested positive for …

Blinken tests positive for the coronavirus, has mild symptoms
2 years, 8 months ago

Blinken tests positive for the coronavirus, has mild symptoms

LA Times  

Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for the coronavirus after attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and related events over the weekend. The State Department said Wednesday that Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has tested positive for the coronavirus after attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and related events over the weekend. Spokesman Ned Price said Blinken tested …

Pelosi positive for COVID-19, was at White House with Biden
2 years, 9 months ago

Pelosi positive for COVID-19, was at White House with Biden

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, a day after appearing unmasked at a White House event with President Joe Biden. Pelosi, he said, will “quarantine consistent with CDC guidance, and encourages everyone to get vaccinated, boosted and test regularly.” The White House said Biden and Pelosi had only “brief interactions over the course of the …

Garland, Raimondo test positive for COVID-19
2 years, 9 months ago

Garland, Raimondo test positive for COVID-19

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland has tested positive for COVID-19 and will quarantine at home for five days, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo also tested positive for the virus using an at-home antigen test. The Justice Department says Garland asked to be tested “after learning that he may have been exposed to the virus.” Officials …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tests positive for the coronavirus
2 years, 9 months ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tests positive for the coronavirus

LA Times  

Speaker Nancy Pelosi tests positive for the coronavirus, the latest in a string of high-ranking officials to be diagnosed this week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tested positive for the coronavirus Thursday, the latest in a string of high-ranking officials in Washington to receive the diagnosis this week. “The speaker will quarantine consistent with CDC guidance, and encourages everyone to get …

Vice president’s staffer, others test positive for the coronavirus after weekend gathering
2 years, 9 months ago

Vice president’s staffer, others test positive for the coronavirus after weekend gathering

LA Times  

Gen. Merrick Garland, second from right, attends a news conference Wednesday shortly before announcing he had tested positive for the coronavirus. Vice President Kamala Harris’ communications director tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, the second close contact of the vice president to become infected in less than a month. Harris’ office did not announce test results for the vice …

Trump tested COVID-positive pre-debate, ex-aide says in book
3 years, 1 month ago

Trump tested COVID-positive pre-debate, ex-aide says in book

Associated Press  

Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 three days before his first presidential debate in September 2020 with Joe Biden, according to a new book by Trump’s former chief of staff. In “The Chief’s Chief,” obtained by The Guardian before its Dec. 7 release, Mark Meadows writes that the then-president received a negative test shortly after the positive test and resumed …

Trump may have exposed ‘hundreds’ to COVID-19 by hiding his positive test: CNN
3 years, 1 month ago

Trump may have exposed ‘hundreds’ to COVID-19 by hiding his positive test: CNN

Raw Story  

Donald Trump may have exposed hundreds of people to the deadly coronavirus if his former chief of staff is correct that he concealed a positive test result, CNN said Wednesday. "His former chief of staff has said in a new book that Trump tested positive days before the White House at the time, the administration revealed that fact to the …

Trump's COVID bombshell: He was symptomatic three days before debate with Biden
3 years, 1 month ago

Trump's COVID bombshell: He was symptomatic three days before debate with Biden

Salon  

Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 just days before he was slated to debate with then-nominee Joe Biden, according to a forthcoming memoir by Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows. In the book, obtained by The Guardian, Meadows claims that Trump tested positive for the virus less than 72 hours prior to the first presidential debate, a result that would …

Trump was COVID positive before his first debate with Biden, says ex-aide Mark Meadows
3 years, 1 month ago

Trump was COVID positive before his first debate with Biden, says ex-aide Mark Meadows

LA Times  

Then-President Trump, left and Joe Biden during the first presidential debate on Sept. 29 at Case Western University in Cleveland. Then-President Trump tested positive for the coronavirus three days before his first presidential debate in September 2020 with Joe Biden and days earlier than that diagnosis was previously disclosed, according to a new book by Trump’s former chief of staff. …

The Guardian: Trump tested positive for Covid-19 ahead of 2020 debate with Biden
3 years, 1 month ago

The Guardian: Trump tested positive for Covid-19 ahead of 2020 debate with Biden

CNN  

CNN — Then-President Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19 three days ahead of his first 2020 presidential debate with Joe Biden – though he also had a negative result in that same timeframe, according to excerpts from a forthcoming book from the former Republican president’s chief of staff reported by The Guardian. The previously unknown positive test is disclosed in …

Ex-White House official says Trump showed ‘flagrant lack of regard for public health’ in keeping positive Covid test secret
3 years, 1 month ago

Ex-White House official says Trump showed ‘flagrant lack of regard for public health’ in keeping positive Covid test secret

CNN  

Washington CNN — Former President Donald Trump showed “a flagrant lack of regard for public health” and endangered White House staff by not disclosing a positive Covid-19 test he received last year, his former communications director said Wednesday. “Full stop, this demonstrates a flagrant lack of regard for public health and for the well-being of others,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, who …

Justice Breyer says return to in-person Supreme Court arguments is a ‘big improvement’
3 years, 3 months ago

Justice Breyer says return to in-person Supreme Court arguments is a ‘big improvement’

CNN  

Washington CNN — Justice Stephen Breyer on Monday reflected on the Supreme Court’s return to in-person oral arguments earlier that day, saying he prefers the high court’s usual structure over the virtual system the nine jurists had started using just after the Covid-19 pandemic paralyzed much of the country last year. In a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Joan Biskupic at …

Justice Kavanaugh tests positive for COVID, has no symptoms
3 years, 3 months ago

Justice Kavanaugh tests positive for COVID, has no symptoms

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Justice Brett Kavanaugh tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated, the Supreme Court said Friday. It’s the first time the court has reported that a sitting justice has tested positive for the virus, although Amy Coney Barrett had COVID-19 last year before she joined the high court. Justice Kavanaugh’s wife Ashley and daughters, all of whom are fully …

US Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh tests positive for Covid-19 days before court reopens
3 years, 3 months ago

US Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh tests positive for Covid-19 days before court reopens

Hindustan Times  

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for COVID-19, but has no symptoms, according to a court statement that said he would miss Friday's investiture ceremony for Justice Amy Coney Barrett. US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh Kavanaugh, 56, tested positive just days before the court is scheduled to open its new term and resume in-person oral arguments …

COVID-19 derails Texas Democrats lobbying in Washington
3 years, 5 months ago

COVID-19 derails Texas Democrats lobbying in Washington

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas lawmakers who hightailed it to the nation’s capital in a faceoff over voting rights said Tuesday that they’re pressing on with their mission to get Democrats in Washington, D.C., to bolster their cause, even as COVID-19 spreads through their ranks. Six of the more than 50 Texas state representatives who decamped to Washington last week have …

All Staffers at Residence of SC Judge Justice MR Shah Test Covid-19 Positive
3 years, 8 months ago

All Staffers at Residence of SC Judge Justice MR Shah Test Covid-19 Positive

News 18  

Supreme Court judge Justice M R Shah Thursday said that all staff members at his official residence have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and things are getting scary. Justice Shah, who was sitting on the bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud, rose before the scheduled lunch break after telling the participants about the coronavirus infection of his staff …

Texas Representative To Quarantine After Testing Positive For Coronavirus
4 years ago

Texas Representative To Quarantine After Testing Positive For Coronavirus

NPR  

Texas Representative To Quarantine After Testing Positive For Coronavirus Enlarge this image toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, the top Republican on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Brady received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Dec. 18 and tested negative …

Members of Congress who tested positive for coronavirus or its antibodies
4 years ago

Members of Congress who tested positive for coronavirus or its antibodies

CNN  

CNN — As Covid-19 cases surge throughout the country, no place has been immune from infection — including Capitol Hill. The spike in cases nationwide sees a parallel in Congress, with at least four members of the Senate and at least 20 members of the House of Representatives testing positive for coronavirus or for its antibodies after November 1. Since …

New coronavirus case in White House
4 years, 1 month ago

New coronavirus case in White House

Live Mint  

Another White House staffer has tested positive for coronavirus, US media reported Wednesday, the latest case among Donald Trump's administration since last week's election. Political director Brian Jack's diagnosis came over the weekend, after he attended a November 3 election day event at the White House, CNN and the New York Times reported. Another advisor also tested positive, according to …

Trump’s White House chief of staff tests positive for coronavirus
4 years, 2 months ago

Trump’s White House chief of staff tests positive for coronavirus

Live Mint  

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for Covid-19, becoming the latest Trump administration official to contract the disease, which has killed over 236,000 Americans. A White House official told Fox News that Meadows was “doing well.” Meadows' positive test comes weeks after President Trump and first lady Melania Trump contracted the novel coronavirus and recovered. Meadows …

Trump Won’t Confirm If He Took A COVID-19 Test For His 1st Debate With Biden
4 years, 2 months ago

Trump Won’t Confirm If He Took A COVID-19 Test For His 1st Debate With Biden

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Donald Trump refused during a town hall Thursday to say when he last received a negative coronavirus test result before his positive diagnosis — despite being pressed repeatedly to clarify this point. Asked by NBC moderator Savannah Guthrie whether he was tested for COVID-19 on the day of the first presidential debate, Sept. 29, Trump said …

Here are 4 ways Biden team's response to positive COVID test shows the breadth of Trumpworld's incompetence
4 years, 2 months ago

Here are 4 ways Biden team's response to positive COVID test shows the breadth of Trumpworld's incompetence

Raw Story  

The Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns' response to the COVID-19 pandemic have differed vastly and their handling of internal outbreaks varies just as greatly. On Thursday morning, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign announced that two staffers for vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris tested positive for coronavirus. Conley's statements also raised speculation that Trump may have tested positive at …

Melania Trump says son Barron tested positive for coronavirus, but experienced no symptoms
4 years, 2 months ago

Melania Trump says son Barron tested positive for coronavirus, but experienced no symptoms

Firstpost  

Donald Trump used his son’s quick recovery as a pitch to reopen schools, downplaying the infection’s severity by saying that Barron didn’t realise he had contracted COVID Washington: Melania Trump said Wednesday that her and the president’s teenage son, Barron, tested positive for the coronavirus not long after his parents, but had no symptoms. The president, speaking at a campaign …

October 10 coronavirus news
4 years, 2 months ago

October 10 coronavirus news

CNN  

President Donald Trump’s doctor on Saturday said he’s met criteria from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to leave isolation. Here’s why: People can continue to test positive even though they’re no longer infectious Research has shown that PCR tests can still pick up pieces of genetic material from the virus long after someone has recovered. Even though …

Covid-19 testing is key, but a testing-only strategy is a ‘complete failure’
4 years, 3 months ago

Covid-19 testing is key, but a testing-only strategy is a ‘complete failure’

CNN  

CNN — Until President Trump’s coronavirus infection, the White House strategy for keeping him and others in the administration safe was one of testing only. Testing-only strategy a ‘complete failure’ Unlike mask-wearing, testing would not “send the wrong message” as Trump has said in the past, and one he reinforced when he pointedly took off his mask on the White …

Another Trump aide, Stephen Miller tests positive for COVID-19
4 years, 3 months ago

Another Trump aide, Stephen Miller tests positive for COVID-19

India TV News  

Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Donald Trump, tested positive for COVID-19, taking the number of White House staffers infected by the deadly virus to at least 10. President Trump, along with First Lady Melania Trump, tested positive for coronavirus last Thursday, soon after it was known that their close aide Hope Hicks contracted the infection. White House Press …

How Trump's Coronavirus Infection Changes The Campaign's Final Weeks
4 years, 3 months ago

How Trump's Coronavirus Infection Changes The Campaign's Final Weeks

NPR  

How Trump's Coronavirus Infection Changes The Campaign's Final Weeks Enlarge this image toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Updated at 7:59 p.m. Meanwhile, Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who debated Trump on Tuesday night, about 48 hours before the president disclosed his positive coronavirus test, is navigating how to campaign effectively while his opponent is in the hospital. Sponsor …

What We Know About Trump Contracting The Coronavirus
4 years, 3 months ago

What We Know About Trump Contracting The Coronavirus

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Donald Trump announced early Friday that both he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for coronavirus, and that they will currently self-isolate. Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee, tested negative for COVID-19 on Friday, according to the White House. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has tested negative, according to the White House., …

Trump has coronavirus: Celebrities react to the news and criticise president for 'science denial'
4 years, 3 months ago

Trump has coronavirus: Celebrities react to the news and criticise president for 'science denial'

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. GOD", while James Mangold, director of Logan and the forthcoming Indiana Jones 5, simply posted …

U.S. President Donald Trump tests positive for COVID-19
4 years, 3 months ago

U.S. President Donald Trump tests positive for COVID-19

The Hindu  

With just over a month to go for the Presidential election, U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump announced that they had tested positive for the coronavirus. Mr. Trump announced that he and Ms. Trump had begun their “quarantine process” as news of Ms. Hick’s infection broke and the Trumps awaited their test results. Mr. Biden’s last tweet …

Trump says he and first lady tested positive for coronavirus
4 years, 3 months ago

Trump says he and first lady tested positive for coronavirus

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said early Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, a stunning announcement that plunges the country deeper into uncertainty just a month before the presidential election. The president’s physician said in a memo that Trump and the first lady, who is 50, “are both well at this time” …

Where Trump Has Been This Past Week Ahead Of Testing Positive For The Coronavirus
4 years, 3 months ago

Where Trump Has Been This Past Week Ahead Of Testing Positive For The Coronavirus

NPR  

Where Trump Has Been This Past Week Ahead Of Testing Positive For The Coronavirus Enlarge this image toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Spencer Platt/Getty Images Updated at 10:34 a.m. Here are some of the places the president has been over the past week: Thursday, Sept. 24 Enlarge this image toggle caption Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty …

What A Positive Coronavirus Test Means For President Trump's Health
4 years, 3 months ago

What A Positive Coronavirus Test Means For President Trump's Health

NPR  

What A Positive Coronavirus Test Means For President Trump's Health Enlarge this image toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP Carolyn Kaster/AP Updated at 4:30 p.m. Sponsor Message "Older age and obesity are clear risk factors for developing more severe COVID-19," said Raj Gandhi, an infectious diseases physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Sponsor Message As to the president's medical …

Biden And Harris Test Negative For The Coronavirus, Wish Trumps Swift Recovery
4 years, 3 months ago

Biden And Harris Test Negative For The Coronavirus, Wish Trumps Swift Recovery

NPR  

Biden And Harris Test Negative For The Coronavirus, Wish Trumps Swift Recovery Enlarge this image toggle caption Julio Cortez/AP Julio Cortez/AP Updated at 3:23 p.m. ET After two negative coronavirus tests this morning, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden proceeded with a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Mich. Biden's wife, Jill Biden, also tested negative today. "Vice President Joe Biden and …

President Trump and first lady test positive for the coronavirus
4 years, 3 months ago

President Trump and first lady test positive for the coronavirus

LA Times  

President Trump said early Friday that he and the first lady had tested positive for the coronavirus. “We will get through this TOGETHER!” Trump’s positive test came just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks, one of the president’s closest advisors, had tested positive Thursday after several days of traveling with the president. White House physician …

L.A. lawmaker tests positive for COVID-19, forcing delay of Assembly legislative session
4 years, 6 months ago

L.A. lawmaker tests positive for COVID-19, forcing delay of Assembly legislative session

LA Times  

Assemblywoman Autumn Burke, seen here in 2019, announced on Twitter that she had tested positive for the coronavirus. California’s Assembly leader said Monday he will be delaying legislative hearings after a Los Angeles lawmaker tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing the state Capitol to close so it could be disinfected. In a letter to lawmakers, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said …

Boris Johnson Tests Positive For Coronavirus, Is Self-Isolating
4 years, 9 months ago

Boris Johnson Tests Positive For Coronavirus, Is Self-Isolating

NPR  

Boris Johnson Tests Positive For Coronavirus, Is Self-Isolating Enlarge this image toggle caption Aaron Chown/PA Images via Getty Images Aaron Chown/PA Images via Getty Images U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, he announced Friday. Sponsor Message "Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus," Johnson …

Rand Paul is first US senator to test positive for coronavirus
4 years, 9 months ago

Rand Paul is first US senator to test positive for coronavirus

CNN  

CNN — Kentucky Republican Rand Paul is the first US senator to test positive for coronavirus, throwing an even greater sense of urgency into Senate negotiations over a massive stimulus package that had yet to come together Sunday afternoon as other senators decided to self-quarantine. A statement from Paul’s office posted to his Twitter account Sunday said he was “feeling …

Rand Paul is first US senator to test positive for coronavirus
4 years, 9 months ago

Rand Paul is first US senator to test positive for coronavirus

CNN  

CNN — Kentucky Republican Rand Paul is the first US senator to test positive for coronavirus, throwing an even greater sense of urgency into Senate negotiations over a massive stimulus package that had yet to come together Sunday afternoon as other senators decided to self-quarantine. A statement from Paul’s office posted to his Twitter account Sunday said he was “feeling …

No Need To Test Trump For Coronavirus, White House Doctor Says
4 years, 9 months ago

No Need To Test Trump For Coronavirus, White House Doctor Says

NPR  

No Need To Test Trump For Coronavirus, White House Doctor Says Enlarge this image toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Updated at 12:28 a.m. ET A day after his communications secretary went into quarantine after testing positive for coronavirus, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday moved swiftly to shoot down local news reports that he too had tested …

Coronavirus testing is under scrutiny after delays and questions over its effectiveness
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus testing is under scrutiny after delays and questions over its effectiveness

LA Times  

The four-day delay in testing a Northern California patient who appears to be the first in the United States to contract the coronavirus from community contact highlights growing questions about the federal government’s testing policies and protocols as the virus continues to spread. “When you miss cases, you can’t isolate them, test their families or get a hold on this …

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