According to an administration official, a staff for Vice President Mike Pence has tested positive for coronavirus. The staffer was not traveling with the vice president today as he heads to Iowa. NBC's Hans Nichols reports from the White House. Aired on 5/8/2020.
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Pence Staffer Tests Positive For Coronavirus | Craig Melvin | MSNBC
One shot of bleach for everyone in the White House, cheers!
@Andre Ward Rat rat lying lying lying rat obammer
@TrumpVirus-19 Trump Pence 2020-2028
@sport You are a true sheep 🐑
#sucker
Obamma,obamma… Gitmo Gitmo? Gitmo
@robert graziano Omabamma Flying Gitmo
He’ll be fine, Trump will inject him with Clorox, Pine Sol, and lit matches
@Howard Atkinson Yep! Trump is in til 2024!
Gods Servant Check the polls, Trump’s chump !
😂🤣😂🤣😂
gotta toss in some of those dryer sheets that smell like whorehouses.
Is they have loungs
Remember when Pence went to the hospital without a face mask? Yeah…
And Trump went to the Arizona factory without one too.
@Robin Sexton this is so exciting! 🇺🇲🥳🇺🇲
@Richard Jackson I hope she’s worked Very closely with VP Qtip. (We know he won’t mear masks)!
I wish they’d stop bragging about their ability to daily test when the infected Americans can’t even get ONE! Wouldn’t “consciously” wish this on anyone…but…tRump and Dence obviously “earned” the right to share in the experience, yeah?
@low key You forgot “and for a soul”.
Looks like the walls are closing in on the chosen one.
Chosen by Lucifer and controlled by Putin!!
@Annie Warbux indeed. Putin is paying a heavy price himself for all the pain and suffering he has caused the world, as Russia has no clue on what to do next, considering they are the new hotspot.
🤞
From Russia With Love
It seems like the walls are closing in on all of us with no ending in sight.
Press secy.: “Everyone needs to be tested is non-sensical…” Only if you work in the WH. I guess the rest of us are dispensable.
@Molly Jo Simmons , this White House cares more about the citizens of our country than any elected democrat right now. Our country has more unemployment than the Great Depression. I’m sure they are heart broken about people losing their livelihoods. That’s why they want to get things opened up in a responsible fashion.
MiltonGoinsHome
This White House is heartbroken about CEO having a lousy quarter.
@Molly Jo Simmons , You can think it’s all the CEO’s who are crying, but they are doing just fine. A recent survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center For Public Affairs Research shows that people of color have not only been hit harder by the coronavirus than Americans overall, but they’re also bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s financial imapct.
@MiltonGoinsHome , POC don’t all live in the same places nor do they all experience healthcare or money challenges. All black people are not poor or live in the ghetto.
@shelby lane , I completely agree with you, but I didn’t say that. I said they were bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s financial impact.
*Another member of Pence’s staff. He already had a staffer test positive before.
Corona is coming for you fools.
And hopefully the fox and friends, Alex Jones and that disgusting self-serving judge who screams all the time on fox. I know it’s not good to wish these things, but a bit of karma would be nice.
Is Corona Time Mami!!!
So people test positive doesn’t mean they are symptomatic or they are going to die over 95% recover completely
@cbapiaz make mine Extra with lime pls!
@Nancy Jane … 95% recover when there’s excellent healthcare.
20% die when the system is overwhelmed, or don’t have insurance.
Right now, the best case scenario is that only 700 000 Americans will die.
They get daily testing and we are expected to return to work. It’s too soon people!!
Also, when you drive, you also put others at risk. Risk is inherent. Its how you handle risk that is important. There can always be precautions like social distancing and sanitation in the workplace that can be put in place to MANAGE risk. Also, of the 480,000 deaths from smoking, 41,000 are from second hand smoke. Meaning that when you smoke you also put others at risk. So my analogies still stand. Where I’m really stuck is at when do we reopen then if now isn’t soon enough? Accumulating more national debt, and destroying people’s families and lives w/o jobs is detrimental enough. I’m sure you or your family has a job still so it’s hard to speak for those who don’t. Please let me know when if not now it is appropriate to reopen jobs (w/social distancing) if not now. We’ve flattened the curve (I know it could spike again) but if not now then when.
@Joshua Buri No, you still can’t compare car accidents and death from smoking to a contagious virus. For every person affected by the car accident anyone else around has to get into a car accident and risk dying…. You’re logic is based on numbers and not on the fact that viruses are contagious. I can’t argue with you about it if you don’t understand. The same goes with death from smoking cigarrettes, the second hand smoke that kills people has to include 3rd hand smoke, 4th hand smoke, 5th hand smoke…which is physically impossible. But it is possible with a stealthy contagious virus… you need to understand how viruses work. The only comparison i can think of that’s similar to a virus, is the spread of ideas. Which is relevant now, when one person gets an idea and tells two other people the idea, and those people tell two others, and so on…that’s comparable. It’s a big number. And in 2 months, we reached, I think, almost 40,000 deaths, which isn’t a year. And these numbers don’t grow at a rate like cigarrete smoking or car deaths, which are constant unless other factors occur. But, with viruses, being viruses, the rate is accelerating based off the logic on how viruses work.
Niko Blanco, that’s fair, but I’m still wondering when if ever you propose to reopen. How do you plan to mitigate risk?
@Joshua Buri I’m in no power to decide and my expertise is in information technology and working with data. My knowledge isn’t about pandemic or health advice. But, if you’re asking me, I’ll choose the officials who’ve known to have phased into reopening instead of letting each state decide for their selves on how to deal with the pandemic (because that’s like trying to stop the spread of pee in a pool). Trump knew about the virus since October, and officials warned everyone years and years even before about a potential virus that the US needed to prepare for. Which is why, during obama’s administration, they created the pandemic play book and created a pandemic task force, both of which trump immediately took out. And in this pandemic play book, and with the task force, the federal government was supposed to handle the supply and logistics of PPE, take control of testing to trace and track the virus, lock down in phases, and open up in phases. Also, in the pandemic playbook, there was an emphasis to inform the public, accurately, realistically, the seriousness of the virus. In trumps case, he ignored warnings since october up until mid april of THIS YEAR (in which time atleast 100 officials warned him about the seriousness of the pandemic). And, during the time Trump was ignoring warnings, he spread misinformation: corona is like the flu, the virus is a democratic hoax, there’s conspiracies to take me out of presidency by using this fake virus…fake news fake news…And, once Trump finally reacted, the first thing he did, and the only thing he did for the longest time, was cut off foreigners from China (not including American citizens coming back from china). He gave himself a pat on the back and said all is well, while states are scrambling for tests and having lockdowns and dealing with protesters (protesters of whom support trump and says the lockdown isn’t necessary and the virus is a hoax and they need haircuts or whatever). And, it’s hurting my head to think about how, two weeks before protests started, Trump was the one that suggested states close, and then when the protests happen, he tweets about “Liberating (insert state)!” showing support for protesters protesting against policies suggested by Trump himself (morons). After over 1 MILLION infected and over 70,000 dead within MONTHS: there’s still protests, there’s thousands of misinformed and brainwashed trump supports who deny real news because their president says its all fake news, states are out for their selves, America is divided more than ever, trump hasn’t made america GREAT again instead He’s made america HATE again, blaming China, blaming immigrants, supporting americans who foster hate towards anyone who isn’t American or white….
So….if your’e asking me…. Take trump out of office, put him in prison, let WHO and CDC to take over tests, bring all states together to WORK together on testing and tracing to perform lockdowns and phase into reopening. “Phasing” meaning a long, process, and time that is necessary to locate the spread and isolate the spread. Coordinate governors to handle distrubtion of PPE and tests from a central authority (not sure who since trump needs to go, since he’s not taking appropriate leadership and is more focused on ratings and money and leaving the economy open while thousands die)..Inform the public directly and honestly without political BS. So, basicallly, PHASE into repopening instead of each state figuring it out for theirselves (since governors like LAS VEGAS governor is all about the money like trump is).
Niko Blanco, ok that seems a bit harsh. I can understand your concerns though. The only thing I would like to point out though is that The Washington post wrote an article about how the virus wasn’t going to be a threat, MSNBC did the same, so this isn’t an “exclusively trump issue”. Look up Kayleigh Mcenany the new press secretary, as she points this out. I’m sure you can agree that the media, basically all media is BS in some form or another. No one tells the truth as it is anymore. I appreciate your insight though
No worries Teflon Don, it’s all a deep state hoax anyway
Coronavirus is hitting the white House. They have testing it must be nice. Mostly Everyone else is not getting tested.
Yeah.. a positive reading from Trump & Pency should be coming in any day now 🍿😐
@El Indigeno you asked me who needs a coronavirus test, and i said ‘the person who cooks your food’ because i was making a mom joke.
there ya go. joke explained.
theyre always funnier when you get to explain em.
Does Trump and Friends think the Dems gave it to her to ruin Trump 2020?? Or does he think Obama did gave it to her??
And what person is Trump specifically mad at for this happening?? didnt they say he raged when he found out?? who or what was he mad at.?
@H-Town Lifer what are you even talking about?
@MiltonGoinsHome all the statements that have “?” at the end of them try and answer them for me…….Can you comprehend that simple task??
I’ve discovered that I don’t have a lot of compassion for those clowns in the White House.
A lot of people lost that when it became obvious they never had any for us
I hope most of the 60,000 76,000 dead followed trumps lead by injecting themselves with disinfectants or drinking some bleach
I guess Trump will blame it on the Obama administration again.
@shelby lane yeah just keep rolling your eyes but I don’t think you’ll find a brain in the back of your head either.
@Gary M , thanks for your childish and immature reply
Lol
@shelby lane You have already proven yourself an illiterate. If you wrote down every single thought you ever had, you would get an award for the shortest story ever. Please, save your breath. You’ll probably need it to blow up your next date, and to think I was prolife until you popped up… Your way out of your league go crawl under that rock, it’s safer.
Lol lol
Hmmmmm seems safe to open up the country. Let’s all go on a public tour of the White House.
see all the ventilators lined up at the WH.
The White House will get even whiter now with all that bleach in action!
Artur Artur I’ve been boofing bleach daily for last 3 months. Never been better.
@Greg Belcher oh, then #45 is your chief!
@Lou Miraglia I bet they will do this type of Bruderschaft shot together
@Gary M They have their bleach Cheerios every day! The grades started to improve
@Artur Artur Boy your kind of crazy as a soup sandwich.
you telling me they get check and the American can’t even get tested and he is opening the country this man is insane
Itzzmeagain28 jeez so discriminatory
@Salty Rage 11 your ignorance is deafening.
Did you not realise this from the outset
@laurie garber Then enlighten this one oh good sir.
248k people a day and rising getting tested.
Valets, staffers… you’re getting warmer!
Fingers crossed they get it right in time. Hmm unintended pun but I’ll take it
Hopefully They All Get Covid19 and Die…..or Someone Pull’s The AR-15 and Slaughters Them All… LOL
we know they have no common sense. they’re going to end up killing all of us.
@Cris R. I’m a Trump supporter and i’m perfectly fine, I’m not shaking in my boots, I hear about this and my first thought isn’t “oh no this is bad for all Trump supporters”, no I feel bad for this person who has it that’s all, if you would have conversations with people who support trump and hear there side, you might be surprised how much common sense we have.
Salty Rage 11
Your correct I would be surprised 😲
@Molly Jo Simmons Would you like to have a conversation.
Let’s hope he goes before we do
@Salty Rage 11 why do you like him so much?
So the two idiots in charge who refuse to wear masks get tested everyday?
@Dark Knight No
They don’t deserve it at all..
People out there by the thousands don’t even have the luxury to be tested at all..
@Native NYGirl Nuttier than a port¬a ¬potty at a peanut festival. I am not sarcastic. I am just intelligent beyond your understanding.
@Gary M I don’t care about your choice. You got yours and I got mine.
@Doris Grant It is ok if you disagree with me. I cannot force you to be right.
All of them are stupid. They need test for stupid level.
@Farida Soemawidjaja , Dude, your article is over a month old. The number to be concerned about is the deaths/population. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#world-maps-confirmed-deaths-relative-to-the-size-of-the-population Chloroquine—-You know what? I watched every single White House news conference for over a month. Trump consistently touted hydroxychloroquine as a promising drug as well as remdesivir. Always touted it as taking as a prescription. To this day, I can’t figure out what is wrong with talking about the scientists researching these drugs and that they are promising. Fauci stood right next to him and said more research needed to be done. Scratching my head to figure out what was wrong with that being discussed between the two of them at the news conference. Injecting disinfectant? That’s not what was said, and the news media knew it, but decided to show a snippet and declare that’s what he said. There are studies going on right now where your lungs are actually cleaned with Hydrogen Peroxide. The same thing with ultraviolet light. The media, as always, decides to skew what he’s saying. Dr Birx even set the record straight on that, but no one seems to want to hear that because…Trump Man is bad. The INTENTIONAL dishonesty of the media does no one a favor in a crisis. I wish they could be held accountable, but they’re not. Still trying to figure out what racism, even in the broader context has to do with Trump’s response or whatever reason you are bringing it up.
The Democratic party is the enemy of the people
MiltonGoinsHome true facts this boi informed 👏
CTM neither party is the enemy of the people, only the enemy of the opposing politicians.
MiltonGoinsHome idiocracy
Sounds like the White House kept all the rest how they doing daily testing and we out here can’t even get tested smh
True lol Trump millionaire Henry test lol
248k a day get tested. Not pres, not vice pres 248k a day of everyday people.
I don’t know why they’re bothering with tests when their Vice President can just pray the disease away