Representative Doug Collins, Republican of Georgia, who toured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta with Mr. Trump on Friday, likewise went into isolation on Monday…“While I am not experiencing any symptoms, I have decided to self-quarantine out of an abundance of caution,” he wrote on his Twitter feed.

For Gaetz’s part, the representative has now tried to claim that last week’s prop comedy clearly mocking those worried about the virus was actually a legitimate expression of concern:

“Congressman Gaetz had expected COVID-19 to impact Congress, given the elevated frequency of travel and human contact, and demonstrated his concern last week on the House Floor,” he said in a statement that presumably not even the staffer who tweeted it believed. Meanwhile, as my colleague Gabriel Sherman reported today, the president has allegedly told aides “he’s afraid journalists will try to purposefully contract coronavirus to give it to him on Air Force One.” So this Gaetz news must be a real kick in the pants.

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Don’t panic, but there’s a chance Trump wasn’t being entirely truthful when he said “anyone” can get tested for COVID-19

One, because even his loyalist Health and Human Services Secretary has contradicted that statement and two because, per the information Barack Obama’s former Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA chief has received, the president is lying through his caps:

Yet somehow…