{"id":1426138,"date":"2022-04-08T16:59:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426138"},"modified":"2022-04-08T16:59:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:59:46","slug":"despite-smooch-on-cheek-biden-technically-was-not-a-close-contact-with-pelosi-under-cdc-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-smooch-on-cheek-biden-technically-was-not-a-close-contact-with-pelosi-under-cdc-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Smooch On Cheek, Biden Technically Was Not \u2018A Close Contact\u2019 With Pelosi Under CDC Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fdespite-smooch-on-cheek-biden-technically-was-not-a-close-contact-with-pelosi-under-cdc-guidance%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=1426138&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Nancy-Pelosi-and-Joe-Biden.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday morning, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced that she had tested positive for COVID-19. Many immediately thought of 79-year-old President Joe Biden as the two were with each other on Tuesday and Wednesday. Biden even smooched Pelosi on the cheek in a polite manner at one point. It seemed Biden was in \u201cclose contact\u201d with a COVID-19 positive patient.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Thursday afternoon, the White House denied that the time the two spent together qualified as \u201cclose contact,\u201d according to medical health experts.<\/p>\n<p>After looking at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) guidance on how to determine if people qualify as being in \u201cclose contact\u201d with one another, you can only wonder what sort of science the CDC is using to determine that status. It appears to be a game of inches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you guys say that President Biden was not a close contact with speaker Pelosi when there\u2019s video of the speaker kissing him?\u201d Fox News\u2019 Peter Doocy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/psaki-pelosi-kissing-biden-cdcs-bar-close-contact\">asked<\/a> White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir definition of it is 15 minutes of contact within a set period of time, within six feet,\u201d Psaki responded, referring to the CDC, \u201cIt did not meet that bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That interaction can be seen here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">According to Jen Psaki actually kissing someone doesn&#8217;t count as close contact.<br \/>Meanwhile people died alone in hospital beds, their funerals went unattended and newborn babies were taken from their mother, because you know, just to be safe.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F51969IANK\">pic.twitter.com\/F51969IANK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rising serpent \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@rising_serpent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rising_serpent\/status\/1512199448914444294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As it turns out, Psaki is technically correct under the CDC\u2019s definition of the term.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/daily-life-coping\/determine-close-contacts.html\">the CDC\u2019s website says<\/a> about \u201cclose contact,\u201d with original emphasis:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Was the person\u00a0<strong>less than 6 feet away<\/strong>\u00a0from someone with confirmed or suspected COVID-19? Consider time spent with someone with COVID-19 starting\u00a0<strong>2 days before<\/strong>\u00a0the infected person developed symptoms, or the date they were tested if they do not have symptoms, until they started isolation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Has the person been in the presence of someone with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 for a\u00a0<strong>cumulative total of 15 minutes or more<\/strong>\u00a0over a 24-hour period?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If the answers to the questions above are\u00a0<strong>both yes<\/strong>, the person is a close contact, regardless of whether the person was wearing a mask properly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If the answer to either of the questions above is no,\u00a0<strong>the person is not a close contact.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at a chronology of events surrounding Pelosi and Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi tested positive Thursday morning, or sometime before that. Per the CDC, individuals should go back 48 hours to retrace time spent with the positive patients to understand their risk. In Pelosi\u2019s case, that would put us on Tuesday morning, at the latest.<\/p>\n<p>Biden joined Pelosi in person at an Affordable Care Act event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C, on Tuesday afternoon. Based on video, Pelosi stood within six feet of Biden for at least two minutes during that event. Biden shook hands with everybody around him after concluding the ceremony. That\u2019s when they kissed:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now COVID-POSITIVE Pelosi kissed Biden on the cheek Tuesday before grabbing Obama\u2019s hand and putting it on her MOUTH.<\/p>\n<p>Our ruling class scoffs in your FACE as they demand theatrical obedience from your masked children<\/p>\n<p>WATCH THE TAPE. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vnGHFF6H0E\">pic.twitter.com\/vnGHFF6H0E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1512115678953840646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Wednesday, Pelosi again joined Biden at the White House for a Postal Service Reform Act ceremony. She sat in the front row this time. A rough estimate, based on a source with knowledge of traditional White House operations, shows Pelosi sat at least six feet away from Biden in the front row for more than 15 minutes. The two mingled after the event as well.<\/p>\n<p>Had she been five feet, 11 inches away from Biden during his speech, she would have counted as \u201cclose contact\u201d under the CDC\u2019s guidance.<\/p>\n<p>If it can be proven they were within six feet of each other for more than 15 minutes on Tuesday and Wednesday, then he would arguably count as being in \u201cclose contact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But she wasn\u2019t and there is no direct proof that the two were within a certain space of each other for a certain time, so he is apparently safe from Pelosi\u2019s germs regardless of their exchange of pleasantries.<\/p>\n<p>Please draw your own conclusions from that logic.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday morning, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced that she had tested positive for COVID-19. 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