Asst. White House press sec. Jalen Drummond tests positive for the coronavirus Tuesday morning, a source familiar with the matter tells NBCNews.
Assistant White House press secretary Jalen Drummond tested positive for the coronavirus Tuesday morning, a source familiar with the matter told NBC News.
Drummond becomes the third White House press aide in addition to press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to test positive. Drummond attended the formal Rose Garden ceremony announcing Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court last month.'Morally reprehensible': Doctors react to Trump's tweet comparing Covid-19 to fluon Twitter that Covid-19 is similar to the flu and that the United States is learning to live with it.
"Comparing flu to Covid-19 is not only poor optics," Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, said."It's just morally reprehensible."
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