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A senior Trump adviser said White House employees are going to work in a 'relatively cramped' West Wing out of love for their country: 'We've all been exposing ourselves to risks'

"I knew when I was going back in that I would be taking risks — that I would be safer sitting at home in my house than going into a West Wing that — even with all the testing in the world and the best medical team on earth — is a relatively cramped place."

Hassett, who said in March he created a "big data operation" in the White House basement to track the number of available ventilators, said he had early on been exposed to people trafficking in and out of the White House to other government agencies."When I got there we were interacting constantly with people going to and from FEMA," Hassett said. "Right at the beginning when we were there, there were people who caught COVID at FEMA.

He added: "But we're willing to take that chance because we love our country, and I think that there are things that have to happen in that West Wing even if the building is a little bit old and under-ventilated." Hassett said he wears a mask in the White House when he feels it is "appropriate to do so" and said he practices social distancing while at work. He added he believedto be "significant," but said that to speak with the president, White House staff must first test negative for the novel coronavirus.

"There's, according to what the doctors tell me, not a lot of evidence that you can pass the virus — that you have enough viral load to pass it — if you test negative," he added.

 

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