--- title: Mike Pence and Wife Test Negative for Coronavirus description: Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence both tested negative for the coronavirus his press secretary announced. canonical: https://time.com/5807892/pence-tests-negative-coronavirus/ author: Sanya Mansoor article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-03-22T14:03:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T08:30:03.981Z article:section: Politics og:title: Vice President Mike Pence and His Wife Test Negative for the Coronavirus, His Spokesperson Says og:description: The couple was tested for COVID-19 after one of Pence's staffers tested positive for the coronavirus og:url: https://time.com/5807892/pence-tests-negative-coronavirus/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7501c58e536bf6d8/698a0bd9b3fce36f490c67f0/mike-pence.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Mike Pence og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Vice President Mike Pence and His Wife Test Negative for the Coronavirus, His Spokesperson Says twitter:description: The couple was tested for COVID-19 after one of Pence's staffers tested positive for the coronavirus twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7501c58e536bf6d8/698a0bd9b3fce36f490c67f0/mike-pence.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Vice President Mike Pence and His Wife Test Negative for the Coronavirus, His Spokesperson Says > Sponsored content. 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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump and nurses at the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 18, 2020. Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Bloomberg—Getty Images  by [Sanya Mansoor](https://time.com/author/sanya-mansoor/)  ## Sanya Mansoor Mar 22, 2020 2:03 PM UTC Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence both tested negative for the coronavirus, [officially known as COVID-19](https://time.com/tag/covid-19/), his press secretary announced. Katie Miller, Pence’s spokesperson, tweeted on Saturday night that “test results came back negative” for the couple. > [](https://twitter.com/VPPressSec/status/1241524786699874304) Pence had said earlier in the day during a White House briefing that he and his wife would be tested Saturday afternoon after one of his staffers tested positive for COVID-19\. Miller said on Friday that, “This evening, we were notified that a member of the Office of the Vice President tested positive for the Coronavirus,” [according to CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/staffer-vice-president-office-coronavirus/index.html). “Neither President Trump nor Vice President Pence had close contact with the individual,” Miller said. The White House physician said [President Donald Trump tested negative for coronavirus](https://time.com/5803244/trump-tested-coronavirus/) last week and was “symptom-free…one week after having dinner with the Brazilian delegation in Mar-a-Lago.” The White House had previously announced that at the President’s Mar-a-Lago club, Trump came into contact with two individuals later confirmed to have COVID-19, one of whom he shook hands with and one of whom sat at his dinner table. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5807892/pence-tests-negative-coronavirus/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5807892/pence-tests-negative-coronavirus/"},"headline":"Vice President Mike Pence and His Wife Test Negative for the Coronavirus, His Spokesperson Says","datePublished":"2020-03-22T14:03:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T08:30:03.981Z","description":"The couple was tested for COVID-19 after one of Pence's staffers tested positive for the coronavirus","url":"https://time.com/5807892/pence-tests-negative-coronavirus/","keywords":["COVID-19"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7501c58e536bf6d8/698a0bd9b3fce36f490c67f0/mike-pence.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sanya Mansoor","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sanya-mansoor/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7501c58e536bf6d8/698a0bd9b3fce36f490c67f0/mike-pence.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Mike Pence","caption":"Mike Pence","creditText":"Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Bloomberg—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":"https://time.com/5807892/pence-tests-negative-coronavirus/","name":"Vice President Mike Pence and His Wife Test Negative for the Coronavirus, His Spokesperson Says"}}]}] ```