Jimmy Kimmel has tested positive for COVID-19, once again. The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host revealed Tuesday that he still has the virus after sharing that he contracted COVID earlier this month.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken has tested positive for Covid and is experiencing “only mild symptoms,” the State Department announced.
Blinken is the latest figure who attended last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to test positive.
The State Department said that Blinken has not seen Joe Biden in person for several days, and that the president was not considered a close contact, per CDC guidance.
Blinken, who is fully vaccinated and boosted, tested positive on Wednesday afternoon after a negative test earlier in the day and on Tuesday. The State Department said that Blinken would “isolate at home and maintain a virtual work schedule.”
ABC News’ chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl also tested positive, and there have been other reports of attendees from the dinner also showing that they had contracted Covid.
The dinner drew about 2,600 people to the cavernous ballroom at the Washington Hilton. Attendees were largely maskless, but had to show proof of a same-day negative test as well as vaccination.
After attending the Gridiron dinner in early April. a number of administration officials and lawmakers tested positive for Covid, including Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
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Deadline.Trevor Noah, who’s roast of many of the attendees kicked off the dinner, also sat near Cheeks.Other attendees have received positive diagnoses following the WHCD, like Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Voice of America’s Steve Herman, ABC News’ Jonathan Karl.“Today” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie has also tested positive for COVID heading into Mother’s Day weekend.
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A post shared by Savannah Guthrie (@savannahguthrie)Guthrie, who received the first dose her vaccine live on air alongside other anchors in April 2021, previously tested positive for COVID in January 2022. The 50-year-old co-anchor reported to work virtually to share that news. Her co-host, Hoda Kotb, had tested positive for the virus almost a week before Guthrie.
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Carson Burton Jimmy Kimmel is the latest talk show host to test positive for COVID-19.“Our daughter brought us covid (even though we specifically asked her not to),” Kimmel tweeted on Monday. “All feeling fine, I am double vaxxed and boosted but the show must not go on. Apologies to @TomCruise & @iliza and thanks to Mike Birbiglia @birbigs who’ll be filling in for me starting tomorrow night.”Our daughter brought us covid (even though we specifically asked her not to) All feeling fine, I am double vaxxed and boosted but the show must not go on.
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