{"id":950113,"date":"2021-11-01T15:08:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ar-aaqa3gd\/"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:08:55","slug":"ar-aaqa3gd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ar-aaqa3gd\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Spokeswoman Diagnosed With Covid After Skipping Trip"},"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\">16<\/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%2Far-aaqa3gd%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=950113&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--><p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said she tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, sidelining President Joe Biden\u2019s top spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki, who has been vaccinated, \u00a0revealed her diagnosis while Biden was in Europe to attend a Group of 20 talks and a climate summit &#8212; a trip she skipped after citing a family emergency last week. Psaki, 42, said she last saw the president on Tuesday, sitting outside more than six feet apart and wearing masks.<\/p>\n<p>Biden tested negative for Covid most recently on Saturday, a White House official said.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki is among the highest profile figures in the Biden administration to test positive. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tested positive recently after an outdoor event with Biden. State Department spokesman Ned Price said he tested positive in late September.<\/p>\n<p>Biden in late September received his booster shot, which health experts say restores vaccine protection to original levels, amid concerns that the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE vaccine fades after roughly six months. Biden received the Pfizer vaccine. Vice President Kamala Harris received her booster shot Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I have not had close contact in person with the president or senior members of the White House staff since Wednesday \u2013 and tested negative for four days after that last contact &#8212; I am disclosing today\u2019s positive test out of an abundance of transparency,\u201d Pskai said in a statement. \u201cI last saw the president on Tuesday, when we sat outside more than six-feet apart, and wore masks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House didn\u2019t consider Biden a close contact of Mayorkas because they\u2019d been at an outdoor event more than 48 hours before the cabinet member tested positive. Psaki\u2019s circumstance matches that, suggesting Biden again won\u2019t be considered a close exposure.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyimage fullwidth inlineimage\"><span class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AAQa3Gc.img?h=201&amp;w=300&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=663&amp;y=210\" alt=\"Jen Psaki Delivers Daily White House Briefing\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption truncate\"><span class=\"attribution\">\u00a9 Photographer: Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/span> Jen Psaki Delivers Daily White House Briefing<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Psaki said she decided to forgo Biden\u2019s trip on Wednesday after members of her household tested positive for Covid. She said she quarantined after that, followed by the series of negative tests until Sunday. She said she has experienced mild symptoms thanks to the vaccine, allowing her to continue working from home, and plans to return to work in person at the end of the 10-day quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki isn\u2019t the first White House press secretary to get Covid. Kayleigh McEnany, former President Donald Trump\u2019s chief spokesperson, tested positive in the fall of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was hospitalized for four days in October 2020 after contracting the virus, putting a temporary damper on his re-election campaign. In a video released shortly afterward, he sought to play down the peril of a virus that had killed more than 210,000 Americans at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has been moving to quell the pandemic as part of his push to reopen society and the economy. The U.S. has opened eligibility for booster shots widely, though not fully, and is poised to begin inoculating kids ages 5 to 11 this week, pending approval by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Updates with Biden negative test in third paragraph, details on Psaki\u2019s timeline in ninth.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92021 Bloomberg L.P.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said she tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, sidelining President Joe Biden\u2019s top spokesperson. Psaki, who has been vaccinated, \u00a0revealed her diagnosis while Biden was in Europe to attend a Group of 20 talks and a climate summit &#8212; a trip she skipped after citing a family &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-950113","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\/950113","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950113\/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=950113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}