"The heads of EPA and the departments of the Interior and Energy were at a conservative political conference late last month also attended by a confirmed carrier of a respiratory illness that's spreading rapidly and taking a toll on global markets.

Trump administration energy and environmental policy leaders or their representatives have said they don't believe EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt or Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette were infected.

The American Conservative Union acknowledged Saturday that one of the attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference had been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that emerged late last year in Wuhan, China. It has so far infected at least 105,586 people around the globe and killed 3,584, according to the World Health Organization."

Corbin Hiar and Jennifer Yachnin report for Greenwire March 9, 2020. [2]