Via Pompeo’s Remarks to the Media in the Press Briefing Room, March 17, 2020, where he took three questions, and did not really address COVID-19 related questions:
— If anyone in this building or in the diplomatic corps overseas has tested positive for the virus, what you’re doing for those employees. And then at our embassies overseas, are we ramping up medical facilities? What is the plan to treat Americans in those countries since a lot of the flights have been canceled, the borders are closed? Are they getting sent testing kits? How is any of that working? —
Except to say “So I don’t want to spend too much time talking about the intricacies of what the State Department’s doing. It is a rapidly evolving situation” and “We’ve had a couple of employees – count them on one hand – who have positive tests.” and that’s pretty much it; a remark by a public official missing in details, given he’s the head of over 75,000 people across the globe.
To its credit, the Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the number of service members, civilian employees, dependents, and contractors who have coronavirus. https://t.co/F3LuZU6cSs
— Idrees Ali (@idreesali114) March 18, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is facing pressure from inside and outside the State Department to be more forthcoming about the coronavirus’s effect on its 75,000 employees around the world https://t.co/GRVR19uAqR
— POLITICO (@politico) March 17, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Officials inside the State Department say they are disturbed at the way Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other senior administration officials have handled the building’s response to the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/3yBRqVCyfj
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 17, 2020
NEW: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says State Department employees tested positive for coronavirus as he blasts Iran and China over "disinformation" https://t.co/3yhmH42LUQ pic.twitter.com/FDIOHRRhaM
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 17, 2020
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