Former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway tests positive for coronavirus

Conway came down with the virus days after attending a White House event with several others who have since tested positive.

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to president Donald Trump, speaks to the press at the White House in Washington, DC., earlier this year.

Kellyanne Conway tested positive for COVID-19 days after attending a White House event with several others who have since come down with the coronavirus.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former adviser Kellyanne Conway said late Friday that she has tested positive for the coronavirus, days after attending a White House event with several others who have since come down with COVID-19.

Conway tweeted Friday that she has a “light cough” and is “feeling fine.” “I have begun a quarantine process in consultation with physicians,” she added.

Conway attended the Rose Garden announcement Saturday where President Donald Trump announced his nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Among the attendees, Republican Sens. Mike Lee and Thom Tillis, the president of the University of Notre Dame, as well as Trump himself tested positive Friday for the coronavirus.

Conway’s tweet came the same day President Donald Trump went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for the same illness.

The president announced early Friday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, and the White House said later in the day that he would be going to the hospital for “a few days” for treatment. His Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, and his wife, Jill, said they tested negative after encountering Trump at Tuesday’s debate.

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