Before the event announcing President Trump's SCOTUS nominee, guests stopped in a small room in the White House basement. So began what many White House officials believe was a nexus for contagion that resulted in the positive tests of at least 7 attendees
After providing their names, phone numbers and dates of birth, each was taken one-by-one by a staff member from the White House Medical Office to a smaller room nearby. The door was shut, and out came the swab.One swirl in the right nostril, one swirl in the left. As their names were written on a paper sleeve to contain the sample, they were told:"No news is good news.
Ahead of the ceremony, they all packed into the Oval Office to meet with the President, first lady, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen.Elsewhere at the White House, guests were arriving through another entrance. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the White House instituted temperature checks at security checkpoints, but those were ended months ago.
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