Vice President Pence and his wife have both tested negative for the coronavirus, his office announced.
Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday said he and his wife will be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus task force.Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday said he and his wife will be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus task force.Vice President Mike Pence and his wife have both tested negative for COVID-19, his office announced on Saturday.
Pence explained that all contact-tracing has been completed and neither he nor the president had direct contact with the aide. Regardless, he said, he would undergo testing later in the day. "We started with very few masks and now we're making tens of millions of masks," Trump said after blaming previous administrations for the stockpile shortages the country now faces.
Trump praised Hanes, the cotton clothing maker, for retrofitting its manufacturing capabilities to produce masks for medical use. He also noted the shift by alcohol distilleries in Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia toward making hand sanitizer products that will be distributed throughout all 50 states.
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