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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSecret Service copes with coronavirus cases in aftermath of Trump appearances
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-copes-with-coronavirus-cases-in-aftermath-of-trump-appearances/2020/08/28/fa0e7b6e-e22a-11ea-8dd2-d07812bf00f7_story.html
A crowd of supporters listens to President Trump as he speaks at the Tampa International Airport on July 31, the same day Florida had a record number of covid-19 fatalities. (Tom Brenner/Reuters)
By Carol D. Leonnig
August 28, 2020 at 6:07 p.m. EDT
When President Trump gave a speech to a group of sheriffs in Tampa late last month, his decision to travel forced a large contingent of Secret Service agents to head to a state that was then battling one of the worst coronavirus surges in the nation.
Even before Air Force One touched down on July 31, the fallout was apparent: Five Secret Service agents already on the ground had to be replaced after one tested positive for the coronavirus and the others working in proximity were presumed to be infected, according to people familiar with the situation.
The previously unreported episode is one of a series of examples of how Trumps insistence on traveling and holding campaign-style events amid the pandemic has heightened the risks for the people who safeguard his life, intensifying the strain on the Secret Service.
In the past two months, dozens of Secret Service agents who worked to ensure the security of the president and Vice President Pence at public events have been sickened or sidelined because they were in direct contact with infected people, according to multiple people familiar with the episodes, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the incidents.
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A crowd of supporters listens to President Trump as he speaks at the Tampa International Airport on July 31, the same day Florida had a record number of covid-19 fatalities. (Tom Brenner/Reuters)
By Carol D. Leonnig
August 28, 2020 at 6:07 p.m. EDT
When President Trump gave a speech to a group of sheriffs in Tampa late last month, his decision to travel forced a large contingent of Secret Service agents to head to a state that was then battling one of the worst coronavirus surges in the nation.
Even before Air Force One touched down on July 31, the fallout was apparent: Five Secret Service agents already on the ground had to be replaced after one tested positive for the coronavirus and the others working in proximity were presumed to be infected, according to people familiar with the situation.
The previously unreported episode is one of a series of examples of how Trumps insistence on traveling and holding campaign-style events amid the pandemic has heightened the risks for the people who safeguard his life, intensifying the strain on the Secret Service.
In the past two months, dozens of Secret Service agents who worked to ensure the security of the president and Vice President Pence at public events have been sickened or sidelined because they were in direct contact with infected people, according to multiple people familiar with the episodes, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the incidents.
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Secret Service copes with coronavirus cases in aftermath of Trump appearances (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Aug 2020
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CottonBear
(21,613 posts)1. How is it possible that MF45 and his VP haven't gotten COVID19?
People all around them are getting it.
sfstaxprep
(9,999 posts)3. Who Says They Haven't?
You think they tell the truth about ANYTHING?
magicarpet
(15,872 posts)2. Therapeutic plasma loaded with Covid antibodies.