Kudlow told CNBC he 'can't be specific' on whether President Trump wears a mask when he's in the Oval Office.
top economic advisor, on Wednesday declined to say whether the president wore a mask in the White House after being discharged from hospital care for Covid-19 earlier this week.
Kudlow's comments came less than 48 hours after Trump was discharged from Walter Reed hospital, where the president spent the weekend being treated for the coronavirus. But Kudlow's comments that the president had both been in the Oval and his refusal to say whether the president wore a mask while there raised new concerns that Trump could pose a risk to others."In the White House, there's a good deal of contract tracing, and we're doing the absolute best we can," Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said. "We've added additional precautions to try to protect against any further positive testing and so forth.
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