Trump’s resumption of rallies triggers criticism
US President Donald Trump is back on the 2020 campaign trail amid concerns he might be spreading the coronavirus.
“And now is even more so a worse time to do that,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s infectious disease expert, in an interview with CNN on Monday. “We know that is asking for trouble when you do that. We’ve seen that when you have situations of congregate settings where there are a lot of people without masks, the data speak for themselves.”
White House physician Sean Conley said later that the president has tested negative for Covid-19 on consecutive days.
"In response to your inquiry regarding the president's most recent Covid-19 tests, I can share with you that he has tested NEGATIVE, on consecutive days, using the Abbott BinaxNOW antigen card," Conley wrote in a memo, noting that those tests were taken "in context with additional clinical and laboratory data."
Trump is "not infectious to others," Conley further claimed.
The president, meanwhile, boarded the Air Force One without a mask on his way to Sanford, Florida, to attend a rally a large group of supporters.
Florida is a critical battleground state President Trump won by just over one percentage point in 2016. Currently Trump is trailing Democratic nominee Joe Biden by an average of four percent in Florida.
Trump spent three days in the hospital after revealing he had tested positive on October 2.
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