2 Cabinet members test positive
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Two Cabinet members test positive for covid after attending annual Gridiron dinner, Washington’s A-List event.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Attorney General Merrick Garland were among the lawmakers, White House staff and a half-dozen journalists who said they tested positive after the white-tie-and-gowns dinner Saturday night.
(Is the AG considered a lawmaker? )
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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The number of people who tested positive for the coronavirus after attending the elite Gridiron Club dinner in Washington rose to 53 on Friday, all but confirming that the April 2 event marked a significant outbreak.
The latest count suggests that at least 8 percent of the 630 journalists, politicians and VIPS who attended the annual dinner have reported positive tests.
Those testing positive include Attorney General Merrick Garland; Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo; Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine); President Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens; Democratic Reps. Joaquin Castro (Tex.) and Adam B. Schiff (Calif.); and top aides to Vice President Harris and first lady Jill Biden.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser also reported positive tests this week, though neither attended the event at the downtown Renaissance Washington Hotel.
Neither did President Biden, who has not reported being infected.
However, Pelosi was in close contact with Biden during a White House ceremony on Wednesday to celebrate the enactment of a new law to modernize the U.S. Postal Service. She announced the next day that she had tested positive. -
Pandemic of the unvaxxed. It’s a spring of death.
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Bigger spread than a Trump rally with thousands of people.
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3rd Cabinet member.
67 attendees test positive (10% of those who were there).
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I pity the fool.....
