Thursday, July 23, 2020

Ooopsie

The White House is conducting contact tracing after a cafeteria worker tested positive for coronavirus, three Trump administration officials tell NBC News.

The cafeteria and an eatery in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, or EEOB, were both closed this week after the case was discovered, officials said.

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Part of the White House complex, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building sits just across West Executive Ave. from the West Wing. It houses the offices of much of the senior White House staff, including officials from the coronavirus task force, the vice president’s office, the National Security Council and several economic policy shops.

Unlike the White House Mess, which is located inside the West Wing and run by the U.S. Navy, the cafeteria and an Ike's Eatery in the neighboring EEOB are run by a government contractor.

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“All proper protocols were in place by the vendor including masks, gloves, plastic shielding at check out, and no dine-in service,” a GSA spokesperson said.

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The GSA did not say how many staffers might have been potentially exposed at the commissary or how long it will remain closed.

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“We are working with very talented people, very brilliant people and it's all going to work out and it is working out,” Trump said on Wednesday.

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Although the White House recently ended regular temperature checks for all those entering the White House grounds, those coming into close proximity to the president are still given COVID-19 rapid tests at the White House.

  NBC
And we can't get rapid tests for the rest of the country?


...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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