Top Three U.S. Health Officials—Including Fauci—Go Into Quarantine

The quarantined officials include Dr. Robert Redfield,  director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a key member of the White House coronavirus task force.

Though officials declined to identify the individuals who tested positive and prompted the self-quarantines, the White House has said that a Navy valet who works for President Trump and Katie Miller, the press secretary to Vice President Mike Pence, both recently tested positive. 

The Washington Post reported that Miller, who is married to Trump adviser Stephen Miller, had been in the White House Situation Room for a task force meeting with senior members of the administration on Thursday morning and then a  Friday morning senior staff meeting before testing positive.

Fauci said he would begin “modified quarantine” because of a “low risk” contact with a staff member of the White House who tested positive, and said he would get tested everyday, according to CNN. 

Trump and Pence will now be tested for coronavirus daily, and anyone who is in proximity to them must first test negative for the disease, according to a Saturday night statement from White House spokesman Judd Deere.