Behind the scenes: Temperature checks, reduced staffing, lots of Purell and coping with grim news.
I wanted to spend as little time as possible outside NBC's enclosed workspace. And there would be no fighting for space, because the White House Correspondents' Association has limited the number of reporters who can attend the briefing to follow social distancing guidelines.
The closet-sized, windowless room where the NBC News White House unit works is also starkly different. On a typical day, there would have been four reporters and producers crowded together less than a foot apart, with a fifth person sometimes perched on a stool as people rotate in and out during the day.
At Tuesday’s coronavirus task force briefing, I sat less than a dozen feet away from President Donald Trump as he warned America we are about to go through a"very painful" few weeks. That was a turnabout after he downplayed the threat for weeks. Dr. Deborah Birx detailed howare expected to die within a few weeks, showing charts and graphs laying out the grim trajectory.
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