When President Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19 earlier this month, many media pundits snarked that he should have followed Joe Biden's lead and stayed in his basement.
Now, some might argue that members of Biden's campaign staff should have done the same.
The Washington Examiner reported Thursday travel plans for vice-presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris have been postponed until next week because her communications director, Liz Allen, and a member of a non-staff flight crew have tested positive for COVID-19.
Biden campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon said Harris will not subject herself to a quarantine because she hasn't been in close contact, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But she won't be part of any in-person events on her agenda until Monday.
Dillon said in a statement that Harris "will keep a robust and aggressive schedule of virtual campaign activities to reach voters all across the country during this time."
PJMedia reported that while the campaign insists that Biden was not exposed to the virus, the former vice president and Harris spent several hours together last week while campaigning in Arizona. It was after that trip that Harris' communications director and a traveling staff member tested positive.
At least two other cases have been linked to Biden campaign events.
Earlier this week it was reported that two confirmed cases of COVID-19 were traced to a Biden campaign event in Minnesota, PJ Media said.
"Biden’s campaign events are notorious for being minimally attended with multiple social-distancing protocols, including strict enforcement of mask-wearing. In Nevada last week, Biden wore a mask during a drive-in campaign event, where attendees remained in their cars, even as he spoke. Biden infamously removed his mask to cough during that event."
The report noted the Biden-Harris campaign "has blamed Trump's supposedly lax attitude toward COVID-19 for himself, a number of White House officials, and campaign members contracting the virus."
"It remains to be seen how many staffers will end up testing positive or if either candidate will test positive. It’s perhaps possible that Kamala Harris’s decision to participate in the Amy Coney Barrett hearings by video was a stunt or due to her being aware that her own staffers had been exposed to the virus and that she may have been as well."
Trump was treated at Walter Reed hospital for three days and released Oct. 5. First lady Melania Trump and their son also were diagnosed with COVID-19 but were treated at the White House.
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