--- title: "Report: More Than 130 Secret Service Officers in COVID Quarantine" description: "More than 130 Secret Service officers have been infected with the coronavirus and have been instructed to quarantine following Trump's campaign travel." date: "2020-11-13" modified: "2020-11-13" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/report-more-than-130-secret-service-officers-in-covid-quarantine" categories: - "Developments" - "Health & Medicine" tags: - "coronavirus" - "covid19" - "donald trump" - "white house" --- # Report: More Than 130 Secret Service Officers in COVID Quarantine ![More than 130 Secret Service officers have been infected with the coronavirus and have been instructed to quarantine following Trump's campaign travel.]() *\Image: Chuck Patch\* According to a [new story in *The Washington Post*](), more than 130 Secret Service officers have been infected with the coronavirus and instructed to quarantine following U.S. president Donald Trump's campaign travel. The infections are reportedly linked to a series of campaign rallies held by president Trump during the weeks leading up to Election Day on November 3. Trump made five campaign stops during the two last days of his campaign alone, where Secret Service were tasked with securing the perimeter and screening spectators. "Being down more than 100 officers is very problematic," one former senior Secret Service supervisor told the *Post*. "That does not bode well for White House security." Trump himself caught COVID-19 in October, and [shocked the country]() when he endangered Secret Service members by enlisting them to protect him at the dangerous rallies and even to drive him past a crowd of supporters during his hospitalization. A number of Trump's closest allies have tested positive for COVID-19 since then, including White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and political advisers Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie. The Republican National Committee also was affected, with eight members of staff testing positive. White House staff have only rarely been seen wearing masks, as the *Post* notes. Even Secret Service members have been seen without masks. The White House employs around 1,300 Secret Service members to guard both its grounds and the vice president's residence. "I’m trying to work from home,” one senior administration official told the *Post* on Wednesday. "It’s not really safe to be in there right now." ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()