Report: Dr. Fauci to Enter ‘Modified Quarantine’ After Making a ‘Low-Risk Contact’ With Positive WH Staffer

According to CNN’s Jake Tapper, the most well known medical member of the White House’s Coronavirus task force, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said that he will begin a “modified quarantine” after making a “low risk” contact with the White House staffer who tested positive for the Coronavirus.

Fauci to begin 'modified quarantine'https://t.co/aikAJFGK3m

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 10, 2020

The “low risk” assessment means that it is believed that he was not in close proximity to the person who tested positive during the time when that person was known to be positive for the virus.

He is not doing a full quarantine like FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn. Robert Redfield, the director of the CDC, will self-quarantine for two weeks after he was exposed to a person at the White House who tested positive for the Coronavirus.

While it has not been released who the person is, CNN speculated that it could be Katie Miller, the press secretary to Vice President Mike Pence, after she tested positive yesterday. She has been known to often be in the White House Coronavirus task force meetings.

Daily Beast editor Molly Jong-Fast lamented the news by saying that, “You know, this is basically the only person in the White House who can be helpful at all to any of us.”

You know, this is basically the only person in the White House who can be helpful at all to any of us. https://t.co/LljyRd3cg8

— Molly Jong-Fast? (@MollyJongFast) May 10, 2020