Monday, January 03, 2022
Command power in quarantine
US Secretary of Defense infected with Corona
The particularly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus is also spreading rapidly in the USA – the US epidemiologist Fauci speaks of an “almost vertical increase” in new infections. Now Secretary of Defense Austin is also infected and has to isolate himself for days, but remains in command.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has contracted the corona virus. But he only suffers from mild symptoms, Austin said on Twitter on Sunday. He also posted one on the US Department of Defense website Explanation away. Since he was fully vaccinated and had also received a booster vaccination, his infection was “much milder” than it would otherwise have been the case. “And I’m grateful for that,” Austin said on Sunday night. The corona vaccination is compulsory for the US military.
His team has started to notify everyone he has come into contact with in the past week. Austin said he hadn’t seen US President Joe Biden in person since December 21, which was more than a week before the first symptoms. The last time he was at the Pentagon was on Thursday, where he only met a few employees.
Five days of home isolation
He will isolate himself at home for the next five days, following the guidelines of the CDC health authority. During this period he will retain all of his powers and take part virtually “as far as possible” in important meetings and discussions. He retained all authority.
The Pentagon chief described the mild course of his illness as evidence that the vaccinations are working. “I continue to encourage anyone entitled to a booster vaccination to get it.”
In the USA, as in Europe, the particularly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading at a rapid pace. The leading US epidemiologist Anthony Fauci spoke on Sunday of an “almost vertical increase” in new infections. On average confirmed the authorities in the country with 330 million inhabitants in the past seven days around 300,000 new infections every day.