At a Monday evening news conference, Vice President Mike Pence told reporters that he did not know whether President Trump had been tested for coronavirus.
As Trump departed the lectern in the White House press briefing room after brief remarks, reporters shouted out questions, including whether he had received a coronavirus test. The president had traveled back from a rally in Orlando, Fla., earlier in the day with a Republican lawmaker who was in self-imposed isolation after contact with a person who tested positive for the virus.“Let me be sure and get you an answer to that. I honestly don’t know,” Pence answered.
“The president has not received COVID-19 testing because he has neither had prolonged close contact with any known confirmed COVID-19 patients, nor does he have any symptoms,” Grisham said. “President Trump remains in excellent health, and his physician will continue to closely monitor him.” Hours earlier, Trump traveled on Air Force One with Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of two Republicans who attended last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference and had contact with an attendee who has since been diagnosed with the coronavirus.Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, who also had contact with the infected person, traveled with Trump last week to CDC headquarters in Atlanta and was photographed shaking the president’s hand.
Before attending a fundraiser in Orlando on Monday, Trump shook hands with dozens of supporters who greeted him at at the city’s airport.
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