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CNN's Jake Tapper infuriated colleagues after he taped broadcast with COVID-19: report
CNN host Jake Tapper anchored his afternoon show earlier this month shortly after
testing positive for the coronavirus, a move that reportedly angered his staff.
The 53-year-old television anchor had tested positive for COVID-19 at CNN's Washington, D.C., bureau on May 9, just before taping his 4 p.m. show "The Lead," which, according to
The Daily Beast's media newsletter Confider, left staffers fuming.
"This happened in the same week that the country was mourning the millionth death due to COVID, which Jake covered on his show," one staffer
told the outlet.
Fellow CNN host Dana Bash filled Tapper's anchor chair starting the following day as he recovered from home. The day after that, Tapper was in front of the camera again, but from a home studio.
Tapper, who has developed a reputation
for lashing out online at journalists who criticize him or CNN, had the network's public relations team put in extra hours to run interference on news outlets inquiring about the incident, Confider reported.
The network claims Tapper followed company protocol, even though he frustrated some staffers by continuing to work at the CNN bureau after testing positive for the virus.