COVID-19, adding that she would begin quarantining and that the White House medical unit does not list any members of the press as close contacts.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“Moreover, I definitively had no knowledge of Hope Hicks’ diagnosis prior to holding a White House press briefing on Thursday,” McEnany said in a statement, referring to President Donald Trump’s adviser whose positive test results were revealed last Thursday, hours before Trump announced he and his wife also had contracted the deadly coronavirus..