WASHINGTON, July 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Biden administration Press Secretary Jen Psaki is refusing to disclose how many White House staffers have contracted COVID-19 despite having been vaccinated, suggesting the information would be insignificant.
“Because of our commitment to transparency, what we’re going to be providing, moving forward, are updates on any White House official who tests positive for COVID-19 that the White House medical unit deemed as having had close contact with the president, vice president, first lady, or second gentleman,” Psaki claimed last Wednesday, The Hill reports, following reports of positive cases among an unspecified number of vaccinated staffers.
The next day, however, Psaki said that because a few instances would be “statistically” inevitable among a staff of approximately 2,000 people, the administration would not be disclosing exact “numbers of breakthrough cases,” Business Insider reports. “We’re in a very different place than we were several months ago,” because the “vast majority” of post-vaccination COVID cases have either mild or no symptoms.
The White House’s comments follow news that six Texas Democrat lawmakers who fled the state to Washington, D.C., in hopes of blocking a vote on an election security bill tested positive for COVID-19 after meeting with Vice President Kamala
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