Being a White House correspondent wasn't supposed to be a dangerous job, until Covid-19!
Weikia Jiang, White House correspondent for CBS, was aboard Air Force One hours after the renamed “super cluster” event in September at the Rose Garden of the White House when President Donald Trump passed a head into the reporters' office to say hello. A week later, he tested positive for Covid-19 , and Jiang had many questions. Had she contracted the virus? Had she endangered her daughter under the age of two?
"We did everything to protect ourselves," Jiang explains, "but we can't control everything." After two weeks in quarantine and four negative tests, Jiang returned to the air on Oct. 12 to talk about Trump's return to campaigning.In the pre-pandemic world, correspondents like Jiang and his colleague Paula Reid would have traveled the roads with the president, herding together, fishing for quotes in packed briefing rooms. Instead, they respect social distances at presidential press briefings, and interview the most powerful people in the country from their homes, in their pajamas, whenever they can.
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