The debate is scheduled for Wednesday.
CDC Director Robert Redfield has cleared Vice President Mike Pence to go to Wednesday’s vice presidential debate, stating in a memo released Tuesday that he didn’t meet the definition of being in “close contact” with someone who had Covid-19, which would have led to a recommendation to quarantine, despite the fact that Pence sat in the front row for the Rose Garden ceremony on Sept. 26 that appears to have contributed to the current White House outbreak....
Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, as he leaves Washington for Utah ahead of the vice presidential debate schedule for Oct. 7. In the memo, Redfield wrote, “it is safe for the Vice President to participate in the upcoming Vice-Presidential debate.” Pence was not in “close contact” with a Covid-positive person, Redfield wrote, which he defined as being “within six feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes starting from two days before illness onset.”
Pence has faced calls to quarantine due to his attendance at President Donald Trump’s Rose Garden announcement of Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court nominee, at which there were a number of people who have subsequently tested positive for the coronavirus, including Trump. The vice presidential debate is scheduled for 9 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday at the University of Utah.given the White House outbreak, such as sitting Pence and Democratic nominee Sen. Kamala Harris 12 feet apart and placing a plexiglass barrier between the two, but Pence backed off that proposal on Tuesday.
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