{"id":1424603,"date":"2022-04-07T19:30:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424603"},"modified":"2022-04-07T19:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:30:26","slug":"white-house-joe-biden-kissing-nancy-pelosi-not-considered-close-contact-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-joe-biden-kissing-nancy-pelosi-not-considered-close-contact-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"White House: Joe Biden Kissing Nancy Pelosi Not Considered &#039;Close Contact&#039; for Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-joe-biden-kissing-nancy-pelosi-not-considered-close-contact-for-coronavirus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The White House on Thursday argued that President Joe Biden did not need to quarantine or wear a mask after interacting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on multiple occasions this week after she tested positive for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki argued that none of Biden\u2019s interactions with the Speaker were considered a \u201cclose contact\u201d by the Centers for Disease Control.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Biden interacted with Pelosi on Tuesday and Wednesday, at different White House events, at one point even kissing the Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Speaker Nancy Pelosi tested positive for COVID-19 this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Pelosi  KISSING  Joe Biden on the cheek on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VEEJoYDc8j\">pic.twitter.com\/VEEJoYDc8j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1512114818752385025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Psaki also confirmed that not everyone was tested for a signing event for postal reform on Wednesday, where Biden spent over 20 minutes interacting with fellow Democrats.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>She noted that according to Centers for Disease Control guidelines on coronavirus, \u201cclose contact\u201d was defined as someone who spent 15 minutes within six feet of a coronavirus infected individual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt did not meet that bar,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that Biden was tested Wednesday night for the virus and the test was negative.<\/p>\n<p>Biden spent a portion of Thursday afternoon with his Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, as they watched her Senate confirmation vote on C-SPAN.<\/p>\n<p>He did not wear a mask and was photographed embracing Jackson closely as they celebrated the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki confirmed the president was still planning a celebration of the vote, in an outdoor ceremony at the White House on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the White House was concerned if the event was a \u201csuper spreader\u201d event for the virus, Psaki noted that vaccines were currently available, making it different from an event held by then-President Donald Trump to celebrate the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Thursday argued that President Joe Biden did not need to quarantine or wear a mask after interacting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on multiple occasions this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}