The operator of the Maryland hotel which recently hosted a major conservative political convention has denied claims by conservative activist Matt Schlapp that state health officials “did 2,000 screens all around the hotel” for the coronavirus after an attendee tested positive for the disease.
Schlapp said Monday on Twitter and later in a Fox News interview that Maryland health officials had told his American Conservative Union that those screenings were done after they learned a man at the Conservative Political Action Conference had been diagnosed with the coronavirus days after the conference ended Feb. 29.
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“They did 2,000 screens all around the hotel,” Schlapp told Fox News host Laura Ingraham via Skype from his home, where he was in self-quarantine because of his exposure to the same CPAC attendee.
“They found nothing,” he said.
“Several days ago they came to us and said there’s nothing to be alarmed about,” said Schlapp, a lobbyist who is the ACU’s chairman.
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Allison Sitch, a spokeswoman for Marriott, the company that operates the Gaylord National, in an email to CNBC, contradicted Matt Schlapp’s claim.
“It is my understanding that no screens of either people or facilities has been performed at the property,” Sitch said.
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Ian Walters, spokesman for the American Conservative Union, told CNBC on Tuesday that the group’s executive director, Dan Schneider, spoke on Sunday with a Maryland health official who told Schneider that 2,000 screenings for coronavirus had been done at the hotel.
Walters said that Schneider’s understanding was that the screenings were of people, and that the screenings involved, at the very least, people being questioned about their current health.
But Walters said, based on his own conversations Wednesday with the media office for the Maryland Health Department, “I don’t think screening is the right term.”
“It’s more of an assessment than a formal screening, an assessment or an evaluation,” Walters said.
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Matt Schlapp claimed Maryland health officials conducted about 2,000 COVID-19 screenings at CPAC. The hotel that hosted the conference says that's not true https://t.co/1XaLFDrJEJ
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 13, 2020
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