Mark Meadows, the White House Chief of Staff, has told associates that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, apparently first telling colleagues that he was COVID positive after the election, Bloomberg Quint reports.
It isn’t clear when the 61-year-old Meadows tested positive. He was not visible during Trump’s 2:30 a.m. speech when he falsely claimed he won the election.
Meadows is the latest in a string of White House personnel and Trump associates who have tested positive since a superspreader event Trump hosted in the White House Rose Garden on September 26th to introduce Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court nominee.
Trump proclaimed that media coverage of the coronavirus would evaporate on November 4th, after the election. That has not come to pass.