Covid positives climb to 10 around Trump in the past week

Most of those ten people attended that party, which brought together more than 150 people in the enclosed space of the East Room of the White House, although all of them had previously undergone a covid-19 test.

The number of covid-19 positives in the environment of outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump rose this Thursday 12-N to ten after confirming that one of his campaign’s top advisers, Corey Lewandowski, also contracted the disease. .

Lewandowski confirmed on Wednesday to CNN and other media that he tested positive for the coronavirus and believes he was infected in Philadelphia, where he worked for days on the Trump campaign legal strategy to question the legitimacy of the presidential election results.

However, Trump’s adviser also attended a party in the White House on the night of November 3 where the president prematurely declared his victory in the election, four days before the media predicted that the winner would be his rival. Democrat, Joe Biden.

Most of the ten people who tested positive in the past week attended that party, which brought together more than 150 people in the enclosed space of the White House’s east room, although all had previously undergone a covid test. -19.

The new wave of positivity began last Friday with the announcement that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who was also at that party and according to health experts, was likely already infected by the time.

Others who were at the party and tested positive are US Housing Secretary Ben Carson; the political director of the White House, Brian Jack; another Trump campaign adviser, David Bossie; and former US official Healy Baumgardner.

They are joined by at least four other infected: the director of strategy in the campaign’s key states, Nick Trainer, and three White House officials who have not been identified, according to various media.

The Hill newspaper instead confirmed this Thursday the infection of the head of the cabinet of the Republican Party (RNC) secretariat, Richard Walters, who was not at the White House party and whose infection does not seem to be connected to the rest.

Before this wave of infections occurred, nearly 30 people were infected in September and October in connection with a COVID-19 outbreak at the White House, including Trump himself, his wife Melania and son Barron, several senators and on White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany.

The White House barely changed its protocols for dealing with the pandemic after the incident, and Trump immediately resumed demonstrations in front of hundreds of people, where social distance was barely maintained and few masks were used.

The United States is the country in the world with the most cases and deaths from the pandemic, which has caused more than 10.4 million infections and 242,000 deaths in the nation, and is now experiencing a sharp rebound in the number of infections and hospitalizations. .