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Giuliani COVID-19 diagnosis closes Arizona Legislature

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The Arizona Legislature will be closed all next week after at least 15 current or future Republican legislators may have been directly exposed to COVID-19 by meeting with Rudy Giuliani. 

President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Sunday that Giuliani, his personal attorney, tested positive for the virus less than a week after holding an unofficial hearing at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix on Monday Nov. 30.

Giuliani visited Arizona this past week as one stop on his traveling legal tour alleging there was widespread fraud in the election. Giuliani and fellow Trump attorney Jenna Ellis talked — unmasked — for roughly 11 hours in the hotel ballroom with several lawmakers. ...

It’s unclear when Giuliani officially tested positive or when he was exposed, but the average incubation period is about a week making it more likely that he was exposed before Arizona, but still possible he was exposed here. Giuliani was swiftly admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center, according to ABC News

Arizona, as well as every other state, is going through the worst bout of Covid over the nine months the pandemic has been active in the United States. Arizona reported another 5,376 positive cases on Dec. 6 along with 25 reported deaths bringing the state’s overall total to 364,276 known cases and 6,950 deaths. ...

 

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Michigan officials order quarantine for lawmakers in contact with Giuliani

By Hamza Shaban

Public health officials in Michigan have ordered several state lawmakers to begin quarantining on Monday, after they were in recent, close contact with President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani. Over the weekend, Trump said on Twitter that Giuliani had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Linda Vail, the Ingham County Health officer, said in a news release that it is “extremely likely” Giuliani was contagious when he testified in front of Michigan’s House Oversight Committee last week. Giuliani spent five hours without wearing a mask speaking with state lawmakers, some of whom also did not wear face coverings.

Vail, in consultation with state health officials, said that anyone who attended the hearing last week without a mask must quarantine. In addition, people who were in close contact with Giuliani for 15 minutes or more must also quarantine, she said, whether they wore a mask....

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