Late last night CNN reporter Oliver Darcy revealed that the White House Correspondents Dinner was a huge COVID superspreader.
Darcy noted that staffers and reporters from multiple news agencies at the WHCD are all now testing positive for COVID.
In the days since WHCD weekend, reporters and staffers from CNN, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, Politico, and other participating news orgs have tested positive for Covid. More in the @ReliableSources newsletter. https://t.co/Fg9FPbasc0
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 4, 2022
I am told that, in the spirit of transparency, ABC News President Kim Godwin informed staff on the network’s morning editorial call that she has tested positive for Covid after WHCD weekend.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 4, 2022
Darcy didn’t give a count, but it sounds like a lot of people from the way he presents it.
Now bear in mind that most, if not all of these reporters and staffers were vaccinated and probably boosted as well. And yet they are still coming down with COVID.
Also it’s worth nothing that Biden was there as well among all of these superspreaders. There were stricter protocols required for those around him:
It’s also worth noting, per a person familiar with the matter, people who were on-stage with Biden had to take a medically certified proctored test that the White House uses because it believes it to be a measure of infectiousness.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 3, 2022
I’d still want to know if he’s testing negative for the disease, but I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t tell us if he was positive until after he’d weathered it or, if for some reason, he ended up in the hospital.