Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary has tested positive for COVID-19, making her the second White House staffer to be diagnosed with the illness
A day after the White House confirmed that the personal valet of President Donald Trump had tested positive, Trump told reporters the virus had also infected Katie Miller, press secretary to Vice President Mike Pence. She is married to senior Trump aide and immigration policy hard-liner Stephen Miller and travels frequently with Pence.
The economic devastation has heightened the urgency behind efforts by governors to get their states’ economies moving again, even though infection rates and deaths are still rising in some parts of the country. The condition, first reported in Britain, Italy and Spain, can attack multiple organs, impair heart function and weaken heart arteries.
Overall, the Labor Department reported a loss of 20.5 million jobs in April, a level not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. On Thursday, the government said that 33.5 million workers had filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits during the past seven weeks. “I’m more than anxious, I’m more than worried - it’s ‘can’t sleep’ kind of anxious,” Trivedi said. “I’m just so tense thinking about these things and how to manage.”
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