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As President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence continue to host events in areas hard-hit by the coronavirus crisis, the Secret Service agents assigned to look after them are starting to fear for their own health and safety.
"The heightened risk of agents getting sick" while preparing for rallies in states like Arizona and Oklahoma "has begun to frazzle agents and their families," The Washington Post reports, citing people close to agents.
Their worries aren't unfounded: The Post says Pence was forced to duck out of a "Faith in America" campaign rally scheduled for Tuesday in Arizona after some of his Secret Service agents displayed coronavirus symptoms and at least one tested positive. Pence postponed his visit until Wednesday so that new, healthy agents could be brought in.
This is the second time recently that Secret Service agents have contracted the virus while prepping for an event for the administration. Two agents tested positive before Trump's controversial rally in Tulsa on June 20, and at least eight campaign staff members who helped plan the event have also tested positive.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/923672/risk-catching-coronavirus-started-frazzle-some-secret-service-agents
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,297 posts)Are they not allowed to wear masks?
Awful.
brewens
(13,396 posts)be exposing them to rallies, though they would no doubt have some risks. Trump is forcing them to be in contact with the most dangerous crowd, probably in the world. People that are proud to go around in crowds without masks and take no precautions anywhere any time.
Tumbulu
(6,267 posts)Dont federal workers have a union?
tanyev
(42,358 posts)ck4829
(34,977 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Snip
At least 11 U.S. Secret Service employees were reported to be infected with the coronavirus and about 60 other staffers were in self-quarantine, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)It's not the flu, like a significant number of trumpanzees and even ordinary plain Republicons are still claiming, even in July 2020.