{"id":1429625,"date":"2022-04-11T10:14:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1429625"},"modified":"2022-04-11T10:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:14:40","slug":"number-of-people-who-caught-covid-19-after-swanky-d-c-dinner-hits-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/number-of-people-who-caught-covid-19-after-swanky-d-c-dinner-hits-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Of People Who Caught COVID-19 After Swanky D.C. Dinner Hits 72"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fnumber-of-people-who-caught-covid-19-after-swanky-d-c-dinner-hits-72%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=1429625&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\/GettyImages-1390128093.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>They came, they partied, they got COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>A couple weekends ago, elite members of the media gathered with lawmakers and Cabinet officials for a debauched night of frivolity called the Gridiron Dinner. The white-tie event features much wine and expensive food, along with comedy routines and songs in which journalists join up with politicians for a weird incestuous dance.<\/p>\n<p>But this year, the maskless event brought COVID-19, too.<\/p>\n<p>By this past Saturday, some 72 people \u2014 including members of the Biden administration, the House Speaker and the mayor of New York, among others \u2014 have tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Gridiron Club President Tom DeFrank on Saturday said that at least 67 attendees of the dinner had tested positive. In addition, five more confirmed cases were announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLatest update from Gridiron Club president Tom DeFrank, about covid outbreak from last weekend\u2019s dinner (72 is +5 from yesterday\u2019s reported number),\u201d Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Latest update from Gridiron Club president Tom DeFrank, about covid outbreak from last weekend\u2019s dinner (72 is +5 from yesterday\u2019s reported number): <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tU9J9R0pmw\">pic.twitter.com\/tU9J9R0pmw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Farhi (@farhip) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/farhip\/status\/1513286224039063560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the latest to announce he has COVID-19 was New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who attended the swanky dinner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@NYCMayor is also going to immediately begin taking the anti-viral meds offered for free to NYC residents and encourages all New Yorkers eligible for these meds to take them as well. While he is isolating, he will continue to serve New Yorkers by working remotely,\u201d his press secretary wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCMayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYCMayor<\/a> is also going to immediately begin taking the anti-viral meds offered for free to NYC residents and encourages all New Yorkers eligible for these meds to take them as well.<\/p>\n<p>While he is isolating, he will continue to serve New Yorkers by working remotely.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabien Levy (@Fabien_Levy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fabien_Levy\/status\/1513211678418157574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/67-attendees-test-positive-covid-high-profile-dc-dinner-rcna23763\">reported<\/a> that another cabinet secretary caught COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who has been fully vaccinated and boosted, tested positive Friday and is experiencing mild symptoms, his office said in a statement Saturday, adding to a new wave of cases that has swept through the nation\u2019s capital. Two other members of President Joe Biden\u2019s Cabinet, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, tested positive last week after they attended the annual social gathering of high-profile political media and business figures,\u201d the network reported.<\/p>\n<p>Top U.S. immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/fauci-individuals-continue-assess-covid-risks\/story?id=83983897\">appeared<\/a> Sunday on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d with host Jonathan Karl. They had this exchange:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>KARL: Well, let me ask you about the spike we\u2019ve seen right here in Washington. You and I were both at the Gridiron Dinner. This is a dinner that had about 600 or so attendees. So far I believe we\u2019re at 67 people that have tested positive who were at the dinner. I\u2019m told at least so far no indication of anybody seriously ill. But, you know, about 10 percent of those infected. What is the lesson here? Should we not be holding events like this or to the point we just talked about, is it time to accept that we can have an event like this but there\u2019s going to be a risk, some people will test positive, if everybody is vaccinated, you know, it won\u2019t necessarily be that serious?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FAUCI: I think it gets back to what we were discussing just a moment ago, Jon. It\u2019s going to be a person\u2019s decision about the individual risk they\u2019re going to take. I think the people who run functions, who run big dinners, who run functions like the White House Correspondents\u2019 ball, or thinking back, the Gridiron Dinner, are going to have to make a determination looking at the CDC guidelines and seeing where the trends are. I mean, there are some places you go, not only is it required that you show proof of vaccination, but you have to have a negative test the day you go to a particular place.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KARL: Yes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FAUCI: And I know a lot of social functions throughout Washington and in New York are doing the same thing, and it\u2019s up to the individual to determine what their level of risk. We don\u2019t want to pooh-pooh getting infected. I think people sometimes say, well, it\u2019s okay to get infected.\u00a0No, it\u2019s not, because there are things like long COVID and there are sometimes people even though they don\u2019t require hospitalization, Jon, they get significantly ill. They may be at home, they may require a doctor consultation, but they don\u2019t get hospitalized. That\u2019s not something to pooh-pooh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KARL: Sure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FAUCI: Again, each individual will have to take their own determination of risk.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They came, they partied, they got COVID-19.A couple weekends ago, elite members of the media gathered with lawmakers and Cabinet officials for a debauched night of frivolity called the Gridiron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429625","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\/1429625","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429625\/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=1429625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}