Sununu Tests Negative For COVID-19 After D.C. Dinner Outbreak

By Nancy West, InDepth NH

CONCORD, NH —After The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Saturday’s annual Gridiron Club Dinner in D.C. may have been the cause of a potential COVID-19 outbreak, Gov. Chris Sununu’s spokesman said the governor has tested negative.

Sununu is still getting feedback and publicity from his comments at the dinner about President Trump saying the former president is “f—ing crazy.”

The Washington Post reported: “As of Wednesday morning, Reps. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) and Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.) and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo had announced they had received positive results on coronavirus tests after attending the dinner at the downtown Renaissance Washington Hotel. On Wednesday afternoon, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he, too, had tested positive.

“In addition, about a half-dozen journalists as well as members of the White House and National Security Council staffs said they tested positive after the event. Their names are being withheld because they have not announced their status publicly.”

Sununu’s spokesman Ben Vihstadt said Wednesday: “The governor (Sununu), who is fully up to date on his vaccinations, is not symptomatic but took a COVID test as a precaution and it came back as negative.”

This story was originally published by InDepth NH.