CLEVELAND, Ohio Six people who work at the Bratenahl club that hosted President Donald Trump on Thursday tested positive for COVID-19 coronavirus but were not at the club to encounter the president.<\/p>\n
The Cuyahoga County Board of Health and the Shoreby Club each confirmed the positive tests on Friday and offered assurances that the workers posed no hazard to the president.<\/p>\n
Any food with which they might have come in contact was discarded, club General Manager Buddy Kane said in a letter to members. The club, meanwhile, was closed Friday and will be sanitized.<\/p>\n
The employees were tested Thursday morning off-site as part of preparations for the event. All were asymptomatic, Kane said in the letter to members.<\/p>\n
It is unclear yet, though, how many of the employees actually did contract the virus, Dr. Heidi Gullett, medical director for the county Board of Health, said during a Friday media briefing.<\/p>\n
The employees were given a rapid positive antigen test, which yields results quickly, but also can yield false positives.<\/p>\n
That was the case for Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who was scheduled to welcome the president to Cleveland, but instead returned to his home in Cedarville after getting a positive result from that test.<\/p>\n
DeWine later tested negative when a more sensitive test called a polymerase chain reaction, or PCR test, which detects genetic material from the new coronavirus, was administered at a Columbus hospital.<\/p>\n
Kane, in his letter, said that those who tested positive will also be retested. Gullett, in the briefing Friday, said the six are not counted as confirmed cases at this point.<\/p>\n
None were at the event Thursday evening when Trump spoke at the private fundraiser.<\/p>\n
The event was Trumps first trip to Ohio since January. Entry started at $5,600 per person. A photo and entry to the reception went for $35,000 and all that plus entry to a roundtable event cost $100,000, according to the campaign posting.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, at an appearance in Clyde, Ohio, the president tried to soften the blow of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it would be over sooner than people think.<\/p>\n
The Trump campaign did not respond to a question about whether anyone attending the event might have tested positive.<\/p>\n
Kane, in his letter, said he was meeting with the Board of Health staff for guidance, which the club would follow.<\/p>\n
Reporter Seth A. Richardson contributed to this story.<\/p>\n
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