--- title: White House: President Trump Not Tested for Coronavirus description: Trump has yet to be tested for coronavirus, even as his incoming chief of staff and at least four GOP lawmakers are in self-quarantine canonical: https://time.com/5799965/mark-meadows-coronavirus-quarantine/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-03-10T03:33:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T19:08:56.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House: President Trump in 'Excellent Health,' Has Not Been Been Tested For Coronavirus og:description: At least five GOP lawmakers have put themselves in self-quarantine og:url: https://time.com/5799965/mark-meadows-coronavirus-quarantine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6fea72878463bde/698a0b5c86f68ee0266ee733/trump-coronavirus-test.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Trump, Coronavirus Task Force Members Meet With Pharmaceutical Executives og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House: President Trump in 'Excellent Health,' Has Not Been Been Tested For Coronavirus twitter:description: At least five GOP lawmakers have put themselves in self-quarantine twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6fea72878463bde/698a0b5c86f68ee0266ee733/trump-coronavirus-test.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # White House: President Trump in 'Excellent Health,' Has Not Been Tested For Coronavirus ## Video: The Time for Containing Coronavirus Is Over. Here's How The Government And Scientists Are Delivering The News. [Watch (HLS stream): The Time for Containing Coronavirus Is Over. Here's How The Government And Scientists Are Delivering The News.](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/EfbNK6OZ.m3u8) (4:42)  _Published 2020-03-05. There comes a point in the unfolding of every epidemic when public-health officials acknowledge that despite their best efforts, an invisible microbial foe has managed to outwit them. That time has come._ by [Billy House / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Billy House / Bloomberg Contributor Updated: Dec 12, 2023 7:08 PM UTCPublished: Mar 10, 2020 3:33 AM UTC  President Donald Trump leads a meeting with the White House Coronavirus Task Force on March 2, 2020 in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump leads a meeting with the White House Coronavirus Task Force on March 2, 2020 in Washington, D.C.Drew Angerer—Getty Images by [Billy House / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Billy House / Bloomberg Contributor Updated: Dec 12, 2023 7:08 PM UTCPublished: Mar 10, 2020 3:33 AM UTC President Donald Trump has yet to be tested for the coronavirus, even as his incoming chief of staff and at least four other GOP lawmakers put themselves in quarantine after coming into contact with an infected person at a political event. Mark Meadows, the veteran Republican congressman from North Carolina who is taking over as Trump’s top aide, joined Republican representatives Doug Collins of Georgia and [Matt Gaetz of Florida](https://time.com/5799243/coronavirus-gas-mask-matt-gaetz-constituent/), who announced earlier Monday that they had entered self-imposed quarantine. Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Paul Gosar, both of Texas, had earlier announced they had isolated themselves. Trump attended the same event on Feb. 29 and recently spent time with both Collins and Gaetz. It isn’t clear whether the president encountered the infected individual when he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Maryland. “The president has not received COVID-19 testing because he has neither had prolonged close contact with any known confirmed COVID-19 patients, nor does he have any symptoms,” White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement. “President Trump remains in excellent health, and his physician will continue to closely monitor him.” Meadows was tested for the coronavirus, and although that test came back negative and he has no symptoms, he’s staying at home until Wednesday, when the 14-day risk period expires, a person familiar with the matter said. Collins met Trump at the airport on Friday when he visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Gaetz flew to Washington from Orlando with Trump aboard Air Force One on Monday. Trump announced last Friday night that he was replacing acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney with Meadows — changing the top leadership of the White House in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. Meadows, a Trump ally and loyal defender of the president during the impeachment trial, had declined to run for re-election this fall. Mulvaney has had the job [in an acting capacity](https://time.com/5480668/mick-mulvaney/) for more than a year, but Trump said Meadows would be “chief of staff.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5799965/mark-meadows-coronavirus-quarantine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5799965/mark-meadows-coronavirus-quarantine/"},"headline":"White House: President Trump in 'Excellent Health,' Has Not Been Tested For Coronavirus","datePublished":"2020-03-10T03:33:12.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T19:08:56.000Z","description":"At least five GOP lawmakers have put themselves in self-quarantine","url":"https://time.com/5799965/mark-meadows-coronavirus-quarantine/","keywords":["COVID-19","White House","Bloomberg","onetime","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6fea72878463bde/698a0b5c86f68ee0266ee733/trump-coronavirus-test.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Billy House / Bloomberg"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6fea72878463bde/698a0b5c86f68ee0266ee733/trump-coronavirus-test.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trump, Coronavirus Task Force Members Meet With Pharmaceutical Executives","caption":"Trump, Coronavirus Task Force Members Meet With Pharmaceutical Executives","creditText":"Drew Angerer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/covid-19/","name":"COVID-19"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5799965/mark-meadows-coronavirus-quarantine/","name":"White House: President Trump in 'Excellent Health,' Has Not Been Tested For Coronavirus"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Time for Containing Coronavirus Is Over. 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