--- title: Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Has COVID-19 description: It wasn’t immediately clear when Meadows learned that he had contracted the virus or whether he had developed symptoms of COVID-19. canonical: https://time.com/5908654/mark-meadows-has-covid-19/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-11-07T04:39:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T09:24:33.810Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Has COVID-19 og:description: It wasn’t immediately clear when Meadows learned that he had contracted the virus or whether he had developed symptoms of COVID-19. og:url: https://time.com/5908654/mark-meadows-has-covid-19/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte977ca6ae9ff2217/698a13e7656a3f3fe2bdaa9e/mark-meadows-covid-19.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Campaigns For Re-Election In Michigan og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Has COVID-19 twitter:description: It wasn’t immediately clear when Meadows learned that he had contracted the virus or whether he had developed symptoms of COVID-19. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte977ca6ae9ff2217/698a13e7656a3f3fe2bdaa9e/mark-meadows-covid-19.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Has COVID-19 > Sponsored content. 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Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images by [Jennifer Jacobs, Tyler Pager and Mario Parker / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Jennifer Jacobs, Tyler Pager and Mario Parker / Bloomberg Contributor Nov 7, 2020 4:39 AM UTC President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has told associates he has coronavirus, according to people familiar with the matter, adding to the outbreaks connected to the White House. It wasn’t immediately clear when Meadows learned that he had contracted the virus or whether he had developed symptoms of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. He informed a close circle of advisers after Tuesday’s election, one of the people said. Meadows didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. White House spokespeople didn’t respond to numerous e-mails and phone messages requesting comment. A Trump campaign aide, Nick Trainer, is also infected, according to two people familiar with the matter. He and campaign spokespeople declined to comment. Meadows has remained involved in Trump’s post-election effort to challenge votes in several states where he trails former Vice President Joe Biden, according to one person familiar with the matter. The people familiar with the matter asked not to be identified because the two cases had not been announced. More than three dozen people associated with the president or the White House have been infected by the virus, including the president, his wife, Melania, and his youngest son, Barron. Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, and other aides tested positive for the virus late last month, shortly before the election. Meadows was at Trump’s bedside when the president was hospitalized last month with Covid-19. Trump’s handling of the pandemic has been rated poorly by most Americans in public opinion surveys, and is seen as a major reason he’s poised to lose re-election to Biden. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5908654/mark-meadows-has-covid-19/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5908654/mark-meadows-has-covid-19/"},"headline":"President Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Has COVID-19","datePublished":"2020-11-07T04:39:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T09:24:33.810Z","description":"It wasn’t immediately clear when Meadows learned that he had contracted the virus or whether he had developed symptoms of COVID-19","url":"https://time.com/5908654/mark-meadows-has-covid-19/","keywords":["White House","wire","overnight","COVID-19"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte977ca6ae9ff2217/698a13e7656a3f3fe2bdaa9e/mark-meadows-covid-19.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jennifer Jacobs, Tyler Pager and Mario Parker / Bloomberg"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte977ca6ae9ff2217/698a13e7656a3f3fe2bdaa9e/mark-meadows-covid-19.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Campaigns For Re-Election In Michigan","caption":"Donald Trump Campaigns For Re-Election In Michigan","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—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/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5908654/mark-meadows-has-covid-19/","name":"President Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Has COVID-19"}}]}] ```