US Vice President Mike Pence did not wear a respirator despite a requirement when visiting a hospital in the Corona crisis. Videos showed Pence standing on the bed of a patient in the Rochester, Minnesota hospital on Tuesday. Everyone around him had masks covered his nose and mouth. The Mayo Clinic wrote on Twitter that Pence had been informed about the mask wear policy before arriving. A few minutes after the tweet was published, it was deleted.
Delicate appearance: Mike Pence visits the hospital without a protective mask.
(Reuters / Nicholas Pfosi / April 28, 2020)
Since mid-April, the clinic has required all patients and visitors to wear a respirator to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Regular tests for pence
Vice President Pence heads the White House Corona Working Group. Since the beginning of April, the CDC health authority has recommended that healthy people without symptoms should wear cloth masks in public in the fight against the coronavirus. This applies especially to situations in which it is difficult to keep enough distance from other people at all times. Following the announcement of the recommendation, US President Donald Trump said that the measure was voluntary and that he had decided not to wear a mask.
According to journalists traveling on Tuesday, Pence said that, as a vice president, he was regularly tested for the corona virus, as well as those around him, as a vice president. And since he was not infected, he thought the visit was a great way to talk to researchers and clinic staff and thank them for their work.
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