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1.22pm BST
There are a lot of reports around about Mike Pence, negative tests, Dr Fauci, self-isolation or not, and possible new White House guidelines for those who work in the inner sanctums. Sanctums? Sanctae? I think sanctums. Evidently I haven’t Googled it.
It’s not surprising this should be so, given that as Bloomberg News reports here, a senior general tested positive for Covid-19 at the White House on Saturday, shortly before meeting the president and his national security team. According to Bloomberg:
Pence didn’t attend [the] meeting … neither did two members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who’ve had their own brushes with coronavirus, Chief of Naval Operations Michael Gilday and the chief of the National Guard Bureau, Air Force General Joseph Lengyel.
Gilday has had contact with an infected family member. Lengyel tested positive on Saturday, and later tested negative, a Defense Department spokesman said. He’ll be tested again on Monday.
New WH coronavirus procedures? @Santucci & I are told 1 measure under consideration is aides must maintain a 6 ft social distance during mtgs w/ Trump. There is a list of over a dozen people who will be tested daily before reporting to work in the west wing, per multiple sources.
Per @JDiamond1, anonymous Trump admin official "says there is extreme sensitivity inside the White House right now at the current state of affairs — officials recognize the contradiction in telling states to reopen while the WH enhances protocols to prevent spread of the virus."
1.07pm BST
More from Pence. This is from Mike Allen of Axios, formerly of Politico and a pillar of Washington political journalism and/or gossip, which are of course in many forms basically the very same thing:
I ask Vice-President Pence whether people should wear masks in the White House, and he says he’d welcome former national security adviser Michael Flynn back.
I think Gen Michael Flynn is an American patriot. And for my part, I’d be happy to see Michael Flynn again.” Continue reading...