Re: Trump & Covid
What's even more alarming:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54386681
President Donald Trump's coronavirus diagnosis comes after a busy week running his administration and campaigning ahead of the 3 November election, during which time he has interacted with many high-level officials.
The president announced positive test results for himself and his wife, Melania, in a tweet on Friday, at around 01:00 local time (5:00 GMT).
This followed a positive diagnosis for his close aide,
Hope Hicks, who reportedly started feeling symptoms on
Wednesday and tested positive the next day (
Thursday).
It takes five days on average from the moment a person is infected for symptoms to start showing, but it can be much longer, so the World Health Organization advises a 14-day isolation period.
The peak infectious period for the virus is the day before symptoms appear (
Tuesday)and the two days after (
Friday), although a large proportion of people never show any symptoms at all.
Trump displayed symptoms on
Friday, so he'd been infected for about 5 days and became infectious on
Thursday.
For the last week, Trump has "guested" at rallies/fundraisers every day - all were heavily attended, with many people not wearing masks .....
On
Thursday, he went ahead with a roundtable and reception in New Jersey even though his close aide,
Hope Hicks, had tested positive for the virus .....