• The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner is asking attendees to take a same-day COVID-19 test and email the negative results after last year’s event was viewed as a superspreader.
• When the dinner resumed after a two-year pandemic-related hiatus in 2022, a more stringent testing requirement was put into place, but multiple guests subsequently contracted the virus nevertheless.
• “Guests should conduct a home rapid test on the day of the dinner and send the results before heading over to the Hilton,” this year’s guidance reads. “However, if guests do test positive and want to be able to hand off a ticket to a colleague or friend, knowing their COVID status earlier in the day would be better.”

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