On the evening of October 1st, President Donald Trump tweeted that he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 following the Rose Garden announcement of his Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. The ceremony had been attended by at least eleven others who have since been confirmed COVID-positive.<\/p>\n
A week after his October 5th release from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Trump held his first rally post-COVID, arriving by plane in Sanford, FL, to address his supporters at the local airport.<\/p>\n
Regarding of his bout with COVID, Trump told the cheering attendees, \u201cThey say I\u2019m immune. I feel so powerful…I\u2019ll walk in there and kiss everyone in the audience. I\u2019ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women … everybody. I\u2019ll just give ya a big fat kiss.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though he did toss them to the supporters, who stood shoulder-to-shoulder, neither Trump nor the majority of the audience wore masks.<\/p>\n
A day further into his chain of rallies<\/a> leading from Sanford to Election Day, Trump reiterated his claim of immunity, this time alleging that it is granted to anyone who has beaten the virus\u2014anyone but him, that is. \u201cWell, you\u2019re the people I want to say hello to because you\u2019re right now immune. You\u2019re right now immune.<\/a> Or they say that. You know, they hate to admit it because I had it \u2026 If it\u2019s anybody else but me, you\u2019re immune for life.\u201d<\/p>\n Whether or not reinfection with COVID-19 is possible for the majority of people is a contentious subject. In August, a Hong Kong man tested positive<\/a> for the second time in just over four months, marking the first instance such a recurrence has been confirmed, yet within the scientific community, some are hesitant to consider the case to be anything but an outlier.<\/p>\n Either way, the CDC<\/a> errs on the side of caution, stating that \u201cearly evidence suggests natural immunity from COVID-19 may not last very long.\u201d<\/p>\n Still in Johnstown, Trump declared that the country is \u201crounding the turn on the pandemic\u201d without giving an explanation as to what that means. He continued, saying, \u201cMy plan: we\u2019re gonna crush the virus very quickly. It\u2019s happening already. It\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n Friday, October 23rd, upwards of 85,000<\/a> people were confirmed to have COVID-19, putting the American total at 8.54 million and setting a record<\/a> for the highest number of new cases in a day. The last date to hold such a record, July 16th, saw nearly 8,000 fewer cases, with just over 77,000 Americans testing positive.<\/p>\n Since Johnstown, Trump has held rallies nearly every day, traveling the country to speak in Des Moines, IA; Carson City, NV; Muskegon, MI; and Greenville, NC, among other cities. He has addressed topics including foreign leaders, Joe Biden, the economy, and of course, COVID-19 and plans to hold back-to-back events in the upcoming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the evening of October 1st, President Donald Trump tweeted that he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 following the Rose…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":576,"featured_media":28233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019,2724,1],"tags":[3257,3154,1234,3451,2666],"coauthors":[3434],"class_list":["post-28182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imsanews","category-news","category-worldnews","tag-covid-19","tag-election-2020","tag-politics","tag-rallies","tag-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28182"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28308,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182\/revisions\/28308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28182"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}