Nearly 900 Secret Service Employees Tested Positive for Covid-19
- Special agents on protective details were almost 50% of total
- Trump shunned masks at White House, held large rallies
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Almost 900 active U.S. secret service employees -- most of them responsible for protecting government officials and buildings -- were diagnosed with Covid-19 in the year ending in March.
Special Agents, who protect the president, vice president, and their families, made up more than half of the 881 employees who were infected, according to government records obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The uniformed division, which guards the White House and other federal buildings, made up the next largest group of infections.