The former attorney general of Nevada got a fast-tracked COVID-19 test at a time when thousands of Americans needed testing but could not get it due to supply shortages.
At the time of CPAC, held Feb. 26-29 at a resort in National Harbor, Maryland, Trump, Redfield and much of the GOP establishment were still publicly downplaying the coronavirus threat. But the first cases of community spread were emerging, which told CDC officials that the virus was circulating across America, the agency would later acknowledge.
In Nevada, state health officials were incensed that Redfield had circumvented the public health system and diverted resources to help a well-connected politician. Laxalt is the grandson of the late Paul Laxalt, Nevada’s former Republican governor, U.S. senator and a close friend of President Ronald Reagan.
“They would have minimized further exposure,” Nevada state epidemiologist Melissa Peek-Bullock told USA TODAY. “That’s what we were trying to do, to prevent spreading. We had no opportunity to intervene.” On March 7, the day Redfield called Azzam, there were between 300 and 600 confirmed positive cases nationwide. There were two in Nevada. By then Maryland had three confirmed cases.
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