Ben Carson has tested positive for coronavirus, the Housing and Urban Development Secretary is the latest Trump official to contract the virus.
Donald Trump’s administration has been plagued by coronavirus, the incumbent US president has openly disregarded Covid-19 measures like wearing a mask and social distancing.
Trump himself contracted the virus in early October, his youngest son Barron also tested positive for coronavirus.
Early this month, six people in White House, including Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, were reported to have contracted Covid-19.
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The latest in the sting of Covid-19 infection in Trump’s administration is Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.
“Secretary Carson has tested positive for the coronavirus. He is in good spirits and feels fortunate to have access to effective therapeutics which aid and markedly speed his recovery,” Carson’s deputy chief of staff Coalter Baker said in a statement.
Carson, 69, tested positive on Monday November 9th morning at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after experiencing symptoms.
The Housing and Urban Development Secretary however left the military hospital and isolating at his house.
Carson attended a ‘super spreader’ election night party where White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and nearly every other attendee was not wearing a mask. Meadows and four others in Trump’s orbit subsequently tested positive last week.
Carson, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, was spotted maskless at several Trump campaign events in the lead up to the election on November 3rd.
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