The New York Times' Michael Shear tested positive for COVID-19 after traveling with President Trump on Saturday, Sept. 26 — the day of Amy Coney Barrett's Rose Garden nomination that may have become a superspreader event. But even though he might have given COVID-19 to the president or gotten it from him, Shear tells CNN he hasn't heard from the White House since.
It's been ten days since Shear flew with Trump on Air Force One, but "I have not been contacted by the White House," or asked "where I was or who I talked to or who else I might have infected," Shear said. He then detailed how Trump even spoke to reporters on the plane without a mask on, though if Trump had contracted the virus that day, medical experts suggest he probably wasn't very infectious yet.
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