WHCA dinner attendees were playing COVID roulette

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Trevor Noah: “What are we doing? Did none of you learn anything from the Gridiron Dinner? Nothing, huh?”

Jonathan Karl, who sat at the table next to Kim Kardashian, who arrived at the dinner with “more security than the President,” went public with a positive test. So did VOA’s, Steve Herman. Secretary Blinken, who sat at the NBC table, raised his hand on Wednesday to declare a positive PCR test. But then, there were pre-dinner parties and after-parties.

https://thepavlovictoday.com/vanity-or-hypocrisy-journalism-whca-dinner-becoming-a-superspreader/

If Democracy dies in Darkness, so does Journalism in Hypocrisy

On Thursday, May 5th, at least a dozen of people at CBS tested positive, according to the insider who requested to speak to us on condition of anonymity. The Pavlovic Today understands that at the moment of writing this article, at least two network executives have tested positive for coronavirus after attending WHCA dinner. Why are they not saying anything? Why is no one doing the story? Long kiss goodbye to reporting on superspreader when media corporations are in the center of the story?

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COVID-19 cases climb after White House media dinner

There is no exact count, and it is not clear which dinner attendees contracted the virus at the dinner itself or at one of the many parties last weekend surrounding it.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcar...-media-dinner/

I'm yet another [White House Correspondents Association] weekend casualty,” tweeted Julia Ioffe, a correspondent at Puck News. “I knew I was taking a risk and, well, here we are!” Jada Yuan, who covered the dinner for The Washington Post, also tweeted she tested positive afterwards and would have to miss an international work trip she had been looking forward to. “Hindsight and all that, but wear a mask or leave or tell your employer you can’t go if you’re in a situation where you feel uncomfortable,” she tweeted. “Those consequences are usually better than the ones you’ll face if you get sick.”

There are no reports so far of any dinner attendees being hospitalized.

Attendees at the White House Correspondents Dinner are generally privileged and well-connected people, who have much better access to treatments like Paxlovid, as well as paid time off and other benefits, than some Americans.



not as sophisticated as Obama and Badu