White House Starts Temperature Checks for People Around Trump, Pence

A doctor (R) from the White House Physicians Office checks temperatures on a journalist outside the Brady Press Briefing Room prior to a press conference at the White House in Washington on March 14, 2020. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images

The White House has started to check the temperature of anyone around President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday.

“Out of an abundance of caution, temperature checks are now being performed on any individuals who are in close contact with the President and Vice President,” the White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement.