Sec. Ben Carson tests positive
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday morning after experiencing symptoms that prompted him to get tested.
"Secretary Carson has tested positive for the coronavirus," Carson's chief of staff, Coalter Baker, told ABC News in a statement. "He is in good spirits and feels fortunate to have access to effective therapeutics which aid and markedly speed his recovery."
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Carson was tested at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. It was a short visit and he is no longer at the hospital.
Carson was at the White House for the Trump campaign's election night watch party on Tuesday -- an event that was also attended by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who also tested positive for COVID-19 last week.
ABC News' Katherine Faulders contributed to this report.