In a memorandum sent to White House staffers on Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence counseled that “limited interactions”—such as shaking hands—with someone who may have tested positive for the coronavirus did not require cautionary measures.
WASHINGTON — In a memorandum sent to White House staffers on Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence counseled that “limited interactions” — such as shaking hands — with someone who may have tested positive for the coronavirus did not require cautionary measures, including diagnostic testing and home quarantine.
“This excludes,” the note continues with boldface letters and underlining, “casual, limited interactions such as handshakes, photographs, etc.” Story continuesBut the Pence email also says that shaking hands with a potentially infected person is not necessarily prohibited. “If you interact with an individual when they are without symptoms , but who subsequently received a positive test, the risk of you becoming infected from that interaction is considered LOW,” the email advises.
The person worried that Pence’s stance on direct contact with a coronavirus carrier could put at risk employees in the White House complex — which includes both the iconic residence itself and the much larger Eisenhower Executive Office Building. “That isn’t a safe workplace,” the person said. The Pence email appears to be based on an interpretation of the CDC guidance that defines close contact as being with 6 feet of someone infected “for a prolonged period of time” or “having direct contact with infectious secretions of a COVID-19 case .”
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