Azar tells health department staff his wife has COVID-19: ‘Mild symptoms but otherwise doing well’

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Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, told staff on Thursday night that his wife had contracted the coronavirus and had mild symptoms.

Azar informed his staff in an email that his wife Jennifer tested positive for the virus, according to Politico.

“Today my family learned that my wife Jennifer has tested positive for Covid-19,” he wrote, adding that she had followed health guidelines and was immediately quarantined at the onset of her symptoms.

Azar’s wife initially received a negative test result from a direct test she took, but later her symptoms were confirmed by a molecular test, Politico reported.

“I will perform my office duties while adhering strictly to the CDC guidelines for essential employees, continue to practice social detachment, wear a mask and monitor any symptoms,” Azar said in the email. “In addition, I have been tested every day and will be tested every day until my exposure period ends.”

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Pompeo said he tested negative for the coronavirus in October Trump and first lady Melania TrumpMelania Trump Chris Christie posts a video on people refusing to wear a mask: ‘Learn from my experience’ False accounts posing as GOP leaders on Parler selling Trump hats and CBD oil: The Hill’s 12:30 Report report: Congressional leaders close to a COVID- 19 relief deal MORE announced that they had tested positive.

According to Johns Hopkins, there have been 17,192,376 cases of coronavirus and 310,424 deaths in the US.

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