{"id":1370,"date":"2022-03-23T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T11:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/psaki-tests-positive-for-covid-19-will-skip-bidens-europe-trip-politico\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T11:23:55","slug":"psaki-tests-positive-for-covid-19-will-skip-bidens-europe-trip-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/psaki-tests-positive-for-covid-19-will-skip-bidens-europe-trip-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki tests positive for Covid-19, will skip Biden&#039;s Europe trip &#8211; POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/white-house\" class=\"js-tealium-tracking\" target=\"_blank\" data-tracking=\"mpos=&amp;mid=&amp;lindex=&amp;lcol=\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> <br \/>Although the press secretary had two \u201csocially-distanced meetings\u201d with the president on Monday, he has tested negative.<br \/>By <span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/staff\/quint-forgey\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\">Quint Forgey<\/a><\/span><br \/> <time datetime='2022-03-22 14:00:54'>03\/22\/2022 02:00 PM EDT<\/time> <br \/>Updated: <time datetime='2022-03-22 14:50:38'>03\/22\/2022 02:50 PM EDT<\/time> <br \/>Link Copied<br \/>White House press secretary Jen Psaki has tested positive for Covid-19, she announced on Tuesday.<br \/>\u201cToday, in preparation for travel to Europe, I took a PCR test this morning,\u201d Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/03\/22\/statement-from-press-secretary-jen-psaki-6\/\" class=\"js-tealium-tracking\" target=\"_blank\" data-tracking=\"mpos=&amp;mid=&amp;lindex=&amp;lcol=\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThat test came back positive, which means I will be adhering to CDC guidance and no longer be traveling on the President\u2019s trip to Europe.\u201d<br \/>President Joe Biden is scheduled to depart on Wednesday for Brussels, where he will attend a NATO summit, a G-7 meeting and a European Council session \u2014 all concerning Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. Biden is then scheduled to travel to Warsaw on Friday for a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda.<br \/>In her statement on Tuesday, Psaki \u2014 who missed a previous trip by the president to Europe after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/10\/31\/jen-psaki-tests-positive-covid-518079\" class=\"js-tealium-tracking\" target=\"_blank\" data-debug-source-uuid=\"0000017c-d849-dddc-a77e-dddbe8550003\" data-debug-source-site=\"POLITICO\" data-tracking=\"mpos=&amp;mid=&amp;lindex=&amp;lcol=\" rel=\"noopener\">testing positive for Covid-19 last October<\/a> \u2014 said she had two \u201csocially-distanced meetings\u201d with Biden on Monday and that he \u201cis not considered a close contact as defined by CDC guidance.\u201d<br \/>Biden tested negative for Covid-19 on Tuesday, Psaki said, and she decided to share the news of her own positive test result \u201cout of an abundance of transparency.\u201d<br \/>\u201cThanks to the vaccine, I have only experienced mild symptoms,\u201d Psaki said. \u201cIn alignment with White House COVID-19 protocols, I will work from home and plan to return to work in person at the conclusion of a five-day isolation period and a negative test.\u201d<br \/>At the previously scheduled White House news briefing on Tuesday, White House deputy press secretary Chris Meagher stood in for Psaki at the podium.<br \/>\u201cAs you can see, things are changing and moving pretty rapidly around here today,\u201d said Meagher, who was joined by national security adviser Jake Sullivan.<br \/>No reporters who attended the White House news briefing on Monday \u201care considered to be close contacts,\u201d and the White House is \u201ccurrently conducting contact tracing,\u201d Meagher said.<br \/>\u201cAny member of the press who is considered to be a close contact will be contacted,\u201d he added, \u201cbut if a close contact is determined [to have tested positive], it would not be through yesterday\u2019s briefing.\u201d<br \/>Link Copied<br \/> &copy; 2022 POLITICO LLC<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/22\/psaki-tests-positive-covid-19-00019327\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Although the press secretary had two \u201csocially-distanced meetings\u201d with the president on Monday, he has tested negative.By Quint Forgey 03\/22\/2022 02:00 PM EDT Updated: 03\/22\/2022 02:50 PM EDT Link CopiedWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki has tested positive for Covid-19, she announced on Tuesday.\u201cToday, in preparation for travel to Europe, I took a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}