The Virus Dogs Trump's Campaign

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail today a little over a week after testing positive for the coronavirus. His campaign hopes to reverse polling trends that show him falling further behind Democratic nominee Joe Biden. But as the president prepares to address supporters amid record U.S. deaths from the pandemic, the virus stays with him, both literally and figuratively. Michelle Fay Cortez reports that Trump’s handling of his own infection, and the cluster of infections at the White House, is a microcosm of the country’s pandemic response.

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0:33.2	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 215 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:42.8	Today's main story, President Donald Trump has resumed campaigning just over a week after testing positive for COVID-19.
0:51.5	But it remains to be seen whether his body and his campaign can escape unscathed from the effects of the virus.
1:02.0	But first, here's what happened in virus news today. China reported a new cluster of coronavirus infections in an eastern port city, breaking a two-month streak without local transmission.
1:24.8	The city, located in Shandong province, found three asymptomatic cases linked to a
1:31.3	hospital that treats COVID-19 patients from abroad. More tests uncovered a cluster of 12 cases so far,
1:40.4	making it China's biggest in months. It shows how difficult it is to stamp out the coronavirus in any one country when outbreaks
1:49.8	are flaring in places like India and the U.S. and rebounding in Europe.
1:55.7	Several nations in the Asia-Pacific region, like Thailand or New Zealand, have also maintained long stretches of virus-free
2:03.5	periods, only to see the pathogen rear its head again. New research suggests the coronavirus
2:11.6	can remain infectious for weeks on our paper currency and handheld screens, among other places.
2:19.5	Scientists at the Australian Center for Disease Preparedness
2:22.6	showed it could live on plastic banknotes and glass found on mobile phones
2:27.4	for 28 days at room temperature.
2:31.1	That compares with 17-day survival for the flu virus. Scientists say the virus is
2:37.8	extremely robust, and that their research can help them more accurately predict and mitigate
2:43.7	the pandemic spread. Finally, the U.S. death rate from coronavirus infections is the highest in the developed world.
2:53.6	That's according to a study of global mortality rates published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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