Below is a roundup of Covid-19 tests results of members of the Trump inner circle and others who interacted with the president or team in the past week. A negative test result does not necessarily mean that person is Covid-free as the virus may take several days to show up on a test.
Chris Christie (was in Trump debate prep, getting tested on Friday but is not experiencing symptoms)
Rudy Giuliani (was in Trump debate prep, getting tested Friday, and in quarantine)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. (tested Friday morning)
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Senate pro tem (won’t be tested, at the advice of his physician)
Jane C. Timm and Marianna Sotomayor
Cleveland Clinic tells debate guests: Your Covid risk is low
Cleveland Clinic issued a statement on Friday telling debate attendees that their risk of contracting the coronavirus at the debate is low.
“Based on what we know about the virus and the safety measures we had in place, we believe there is a low risk of exposure to our guests,” the Ohio-based medical center said. “Out of abundance of caution, we are reaching out to guests to address any questions and concerns, as well as offering testing,”
Cleveland Clinic advised the Commission on Presidential Debates and the host site on mitigating the coronavirus risk, requiring temperature checks, hand sanitizing, social distancing, and mask-wearing. Anyone inside the debate hall was tested for the coronavirus before entry, while campaigns and their staff were tested by their campaigns, they said in a statement.
Several members of the Trump family and their guests took their masks off once inside the debate hall.
A Cleveland Clinic doctor in a white lab coat started to approach Trump family guests to wear a mask. She offered them one in case they didn’t get one. She never approached the family but as she got closer to them, someone shook their head and no one she reminded to put on a mask ended up putting one on.
When the doctor, who refused to comment to the press, walked off the floor, a debate hall staffer told her “That’s all you can do.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday called for a Capitol Hill testing and contact tracing program and accused the White House of putting the Senate and their staffers at risk for the coronavirus.
“This episode demonstrates that the Senate needs a testing and contact tracing program for Senators, staff, and all who work in the Capitol complex,” he said in a statement. “We simply cannot allow the administration’s cavalier attitude to adversely affect this branch of government.”
Schumer, a New York Democrat, called for careful contact tracing of everyone who may have been infected or exposed by the president, first lady, aide Hope Hicks or their contacts.
Schumer noted that Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court nominee who senators have been meeting with recently amid the vetting process, might have been exposed to the virus. A White House spokesman said earlier Friday that Barrett is tested daily for Covid-19 and has tested negative.
“It is imperative that all results be made public in order to contain a possible outbreak and so we can determine the need for senators and staff to quarantine or self-isolate,” Schumer said in the statement.
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