Kamala Harris

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VP Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid; Biden not a 'close contact' (syracuse.com)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, the White House announced, underscoring the persistence of the ...

The White House has put in place strict COVID-19 protocols around the president, vice president and their spouses, including daily testing for those expected to be in close contact with them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines “close contact” with an infected person as spending 15 minutes or more with them over a 24-hour period. She received a booster shot in late October and an additional booster on April 1. “There is no 100% anything.” “I’m grateful to be both vaccinated and boosted.” WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, the White House announced, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagious virus even as the U.S. eases restrictions in a bid to return to pre-pandemic normalcy.

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Kamala Harris tests positive for COVID-19 (WJBF-TV)

Vice President Harris on Tuesday tested positive for COVID-19, her office announced, becoming the latest high-profile political figure to contract the virus ...

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US Vice President Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid (The Citizen)

US Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday but is asymptomatic and not considered a current close contact of President Joe ...

"Any American could get Covid," the new White House Covid-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha told reporters. "She has not been a close contact to the president or first lady due to their respective recent travel schedules," Allen said, adding that Harris would "return to the White House when she tests negative." US Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday but is asymptomatic and not considered a current close contact of President Joe Biden, the White House said.

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Vice President Kamala Harris tests positive for COVID-19 (WCLU)

Harris is not symptomatic after receiving results from rapid and PCR tests, said Allen, adding: “She has not been a close contact to the president or first lady ...

Harris will continue to work from home at the Naval Observatory, and plans to return to the White House upon testing negative. According to the vice president’s press secretary Kirsten Allen, Harris is fully vaccinated with Moderna and has also received two booster shots — her first booster was administered in October, and her second booster in early April. Harris is not symptomatic after receiving results from rapid and PCR tests, said Allen, adding: “She has not been a close contact to the president or first lady due to their respective recent travel schedules.” Harris’s last in-person contact with President Joe Biden was during April 18’s Easter Egg Roll, according to an official, after which she left for California. The White House announced on Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris has tested positive for COVID-19. CNN reported that the vice president’s positive test results rerouted her plans to attend an intelligence briefing Tuesday at the White House, where she was initially tested.

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Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid - EasternEye (Eastern Eye)

By: Pramod Thomas. US vice president Kamala Harris tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday (26) but is asymptomatic and not considered a current close ...

“It is certainly possible that he will test positive for Covid, and he is vaccinated, he is boosted and protected from the most severe strains of the virus,” White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said earlier this month. “She has not been a close contact to the president or first lady due to their respective recent travel schedules,” Allen said, adding that Harris would “return to the White House when she tests negative.” US vice president Kamala Harris tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday (26) but is asymptomatic and not considered a current close contact of president Joe Biden, the White House said.

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Kamala Harris is being treated with Pfizer's Paxlovid pills after ... (Daily Mail)

Her press secretary Kirsten Allen said in a statement that Harris - who is fully-vaccinated and double boosted - received positive rapid and PCR test ...

Harris returned from a week-long trip to her home state Monday night. 'She fortunately did not get it.' 'It was an emotional day. And there were moments when she was not wearing a mask inside, including in a photo but she was wearing it 99.9% of the time,' Psaki said at a briefing. It was a historic day. Emhoff had coronavirus last month The White House said that Biden called Harris to 'check in and make sure she has everything she needs as she quarantines at home.' Harris' press secretary announced late on Tuesday that the vice president had begun a regiment of antiviral Covid pills designed to keep high-risk patients out of the hospital Harris is 57. Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff hold a child as they participate in activities on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 18. The vice president's press secretary said she was 'not been a recent contact' to President Joe Biden or First Lady Jill Biden 'due to recent travel schedules.' - The vice president initially took two rounds of the Moderna vaccine and took her second booster shot on April 1, meaning she has four in total

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Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid as US struggles for normalcy (5 Dariya News)

US Vice-President Kamala Harris has become the highest-ranking official in the current Biden administration to be infected with Covid-19 despite vaccinations as ...

Harris's husband, Dough Emhoff, was infected with Covid-19 in March, but she was not infected with the virus at that time. The Biden administration has been making a determined push for Covid vaccinations in a country where the preventive measure has been politicised. Amid concerns for the 79-year-old US President Joe Biden, Allen added the reassurance that Harris, who has been travelling, has not been in direct contact with him or his wife Jill in recent days.

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Kamala Harris went to California to recharge, but got infected (Los Angeles Times)

Where Vice President Kamala Harris' positive coronavirus tests fit into the bigger pandemic picture.

Even so, Fauci told the New York Times he would be skipping the White House Correspondents Assn. dinner “because of my individual assessment of my personal risk.” Is the president taking extra precautions? Harris took Paxlovid, a drug developed by Pfizer to treat people at high risk of becoming severely ill from the virus, including those over age 65 or with chronic conditions. She came back a day early only to test positive for the coronavirus. A buzzy book out next week, “This Will Not Pass,” portrays her role in the Biden administration as slight, despite promises she would be an influential vice president. She returned to Washington with the coronavirus

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Vice President Kamala Harris still scheduled to give TSU ... (WATN - Local 24)

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to deliver the undergraduate commencement address Saturday, May 7, 2022 on the TSU campus.

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Kamala Harris remains asymptomatic and is working after testing ... (CNN)

Vice President Kamala Harris does not have Covid-19 symptoms a day after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to a White House official on ...

Harris completed her two-dose regimen of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine in January 2021. She did not participate in any events or meetings at the White House on Tuesday, according to a White House official. In San Francisco on Thursday, Harris highlighted the Black maternal health crisis during events and was indoors talking to expecting mothers and health providers without a mask on.

Around the nation: Vice President Kamala Harris tests positive for ... (The Daily Briefing)

Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Connecticut, ...

- New York: St. Mary's Healthcare Amsterdam named Craig van Roekens as CMO. Since joining the health system in September 2021, van Roekens served as ED director before becoming hospitalist director. "Today, Vice President Harris tested positive for Covid-19 on rapid and PCR tests," said Harris spokesperson Kirsten Allen. "She has not been a close contact to the President or First Lady due to their respective recent travel schedules," Allen added. Her experience, tenacity and optimism will help guide Yale New Haven Health as we navigate out of the pandemic and into a new normal."

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VP Kamala Harris tests positive for COVID-19 (Amsterdam News)

She was recently surrounded by a circle of infected people, including her husband Doug Emhoff, her communications director, the White House secretary, and a ...

“She has not been in close contact with the president or First Lady due to their respective recent travel schedules,” Allen added. Her case is considered a “breakthrough” since she had been given the shots to ward off the virus, and now she will have to be isolated until she tests negative. Allen said that Harris, after consultation with her doctors, is taking the antiviral coronavirus treatment Paxlovid, which is available for emergency use for mild-to-moderately infected people 12 and older.

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