Breaking: US Vice President Mike Pence’s Closest Aide Tests Positive for COVID

Mike Pence’s Closest Aide, Marc Short, has tested Positive for COVID-19.

Pence’s spokesman Devin O’Malley confirmed Saturday evening that VP’s right hand, Short, had contracted the virus. Pence is not expected to cancel any of his scheduled events in light of his top aide’s illness, O’Malley noted, adding that his boss “will maintain his schedule in accordance with the CDC guidelines for essential personnel.” He also added: Vice President Pence and Mrs Pence both tested negative for COVID-19 today, and remain in good health.”

US Vice President Mike Pence’s Closest Aide Tests Positive for COVID
Chief of Staff to the U.S. Vice President Marc Short with his wife, Kristen Short. image: Twitter

The spokesman said the decision for Pence to continue his public engagements was made “in consultation with the White House Medical Unit.” Short, who served as Director for Legislative Affairs in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2018 and, since March 2019, has been Pence’s chief of staff, is considered to be a “close contact” to the Vice President.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s guidelines for “critical infrastructure workers” who have been potentially exposed to the coronavirus, state that such workers might go on with their duties as long as they don’t display any symptoms, are under regular monitoring and “wear a mask at all times while in the workplace for 14 days after last exposure.”

Short has become yet another high-profile White House official to have contracted the virus. US President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and their teenage son Baron all tested positive for the virus early October. Shortly after his diagnosis, Trump was transported to Walter Reed, where he spent four days being treated with an experimental drug cocktail and oxygen.


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