Consecutively letting Covid-19 attack with outbreaks involving both President Trump and Vice President Pence, the White House shows that they have not learned the lesson.

US President Donald Trump's election campaign over the weekend received a new shock, when an outbreak of Covid-19 broke out over the White House.

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US Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Florida election campaign on October 24 Photo: AP.

Observers say that when the US presidential election is just over a week away, an outbreak involving close Pence aides has shown the Trump administration's failure to curb the epidemic amid

The outbreak involves Vice President Pence, the head of the White House's anti-Covid-19 task force, undermining the claim that President Trump has long distributed that his administration is "doing well"

What made Trump's campaign even more difficult was the sudden admiration of White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on October 25 that the administration had almost abandoned efforts to contain the virus.

"We are not going to control the disease," Meadows said in an interview with CNN.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden immediately took advantage of this statement to attack Trump's campaign.

An outbreak involving Vice President Pence broke out almost three weeks after President Trump was hospitalized for Covid-19 treatment and many of his advisers also contracted the virus.

NCOV-infected individuals in Vice President Pence's immediate circle include chief of staff Marc Short, top adviser Marty Obst, personal assistant Zach Bauer, who is always "pictured with a shadow" next to

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From left: Chief of Staff of the US Vice President Marc Short, US Vice President Mike Pence, former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and adviser Marty Obst at an event on October 7 Photo: Twitter/ScottWalker.

Pence has been in close contact with several infected people in recent days, but spokeswoman Devin O'Malley said the Vice President and his wife Karen Pence both tested negative on October 24 and continued to have "

Some White House advisers have said they do not want to draw too much attention on the new outbreak as it will highlight the severity of the pandemic over the last week of the campaign, thereby raising doubts about how

Despite information that an assistant close to nCoV-infected, Pence has no intention of giving up on his intense campaign schedule.

According to experts, the latest outbreak shows a clear fact that the White House and the campaign of Trump and Pence both lack basic anti-epidemic protocols.

From the outset, President Trump downplayed the dangers of Covid-19, insisting that the virus "disappears on its own".

Trump's pandemic response strategy revolved around his political ideology, where he criticized the performance of Democratic governors and praised the strict approach of Republican leaders.

The President also turns wearing masks and other anti-epidemic measures into loyalty tests, rejecting the importance of community segregation.

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President Trump at the election campaign in North Carolina on October 24 Photo: NYTimes.

"The White House has very lax rules about the protection of employees and leaders," said Dr. Ashish Jha, principal of the Brown University School of Public Health.

While campaigning over the weekend, Trump tried to describe a different fact.

"The vaccine will soon quell the pandemic soon, it's finally over," Trump said.

Trump also hopes to distract public opinion from the pandemic during the sprint, but the new outbreak involving Vice President Pence is expected to rush this effort, observers.

On October 25, when asked if Vice President Pence should stop running, President Trump said reporters should "ask him for himself", then turned to praising the size of the crowd at the

The only person in President Trump's close circle ever infected with nCoV and changed his mind was Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey, who recovered from a period of hospitalization for Covid-19.

"That little inconvenience can save your life, your neighborhood and the economy," he wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week.