Dozens of Secret Service officers and agents told to self-quarantine after Trump's Tulsa rally
Source: MSN
Dozens of Secret Service officers and agents who were on site for President Trumps rally in Tulsa last week were ordered to self-quarantine after two of their colleagues tested positive for the novel coronavirus, part of the fallout from Trumps insistence on holding the mass gathering over the objections of public health officials.
The Secret Service instructed employees who worked the Tulsa event to stay at home for 14 days when they returned from the weekend trip, according to two people familiar with the agencys decision.
The order came in the wake of the discovery hours before the presidents Saturday evening rally that at least six advance staffers who helped organize the trip had tested positive for the virus, including two Secret Service employees. Another two advance staffers tested positive after Trump returned to Washington on Sunday.
On Tuesday, the Secret Service field office in Tulsa arranged for a special testing session at a local hospital to determine if local agents had contracted the virus while assisting with the rally, according to two other people with knowledge of the testing. As part of the arrangement, doctors administered the test to both agents and some local officials in parked cars outside the hospital.
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I hope that the Secret Service Agents are getting paid after being told to self-quarantine, though I could see Trump doing a dick move and refusing to pay their salary while they are in self-quanrantine.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)attention fix. Another good reason why the House should cut off his security funding.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)quarantining.
Lonestarblue
(10,063 posts)He deserves the virus for being so selfish in putting the lives of the people who had to be there with him at risk. How many people will Senate Republicans allow Trump to kill before they work up the courage to tell him to resign? Rhetorical question. They dont care.
marie999
(3,334 posts)I will take a Corvid-19 virus for the president.
llashram
(6,265 posts)Charge of the Light Brigade, 21st century redux. May all those people "following orders" be well.