of model personal responsibilitymore than two dozen senators are in their 70s and 80s putting them at high risk if exposedstill despite risk to senators and the fact that gyms across the country have been closed as a precaution paul and other senators were able to continue going to the senate gym using a keypad for accesssenator sherrod brown an ohio democrat said in an interview with newsy that pauls actions were irresponsible and that senators in general have been acting as if they were somehow immune to getting sick he cited what he said was a photo opp for senators held over the weekendi think that senators must think that theyre invincible brown said paul a proud civil libertarian said he had thought it highly unlikely he was sick before getting the test results and had no symptoms of the illness he said he did not have contact with anyone who tested positive for the virus or was sickhe was at the senate gym sunday morning though pauls staff says he left the capitol as soon as he received the resultsasked about paul deborah birx the coordinator of the white house coronavirus task force said people can spread the virus while being asymptomatic so social distancing is imperative she noted that she herself stayed home over the weekend when she felt ill she took a coronavirus test that came back negativethese are the kinds of things that we have to do for one another this is the personal responsibility that im talking about that we all have to practice birx saidtrump raised eyebrows among public health specialists when he methodically shook the hands of retail and health industry specialists at a rose garden news conference two weeks ago he acknowledged monday that shaking hands has been a hard habit for him to break having become accustomed as president to doing so with literally thousands of people a weekeven now he stands close to other officials at daily white house briefings including vice president mike pence by contrast defence secretary mark esper began separating from his deputy this month as a precaution