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Typhoid Mary never committed any crime.
She was locked up for thirty years.
Nine coronavirus cases tied to Trump Minnesota rally
One attendee remains in an intensive care unit
President Donald Trump dances as he walks off stage after speaking during a campaign rally on Sept. 18, 2020, in Bemidji, Minn.
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One of them remains in an intensive care unit.
Doug Schultz, a Minnesota Department of Health spokesman, said in an email that the department cannot say definitively that the infections were acquired at the rally, due to widespread community transmission of the disease — “only that they attended the rally during the time when they were likely to have been exposed to the virus that made them ill (i.e. 14 days prior to illness onset).”
At least one person was likely infectious while at the rally, the department said.
Two other people who contracted the virus reported attending a protest in response to the rally.
The announcement served to heighten scrutiny of the kind of large, mostly mask-less gatherings that the Trump campaign has continued to hold during the pandemic’s spread.
Yet it is unlikely to stop them. The announcement of cases in Minnesota came as Trump — himself recovering from a Covid-19 infection — prepares to resume rallies. His campaign announced Friday that he will speak in Sanford, Fla., on Monday.
Joe Biden's campaign and Minnesota Democrats lit into Trump following news of the coronavirus cases.
“As Joe Biden has said, the presidency is the duty to care," Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said. "Donald Trump has utterly failed in that duty, lying about this deadly threat to the American people from the very beginning while mismanaging the response — and willingly exposing his own supporters to the pandemic for his own optical gratification.”
Ken Martin, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, said in a prepared statement, "It was only a matter of time until the dangerous, mask-less campaign events staged by Donald Trump and Minnesota Republicans landed Minnesotans in the hospital."
Tim Murtaugh, a Trump campaign spokesman, cast doubt on the possibility that the cases were contracted at the rally. “Tying these cases to an outdoor event that occurred three weeks ago, where hand sanitizer and face masks were supplied, is a stretch,” he said. “We wish them all speedy recoveries.”
Trump has fixated on Minnesota since losing the state narrowly in 2016. A rare offensive opportunity for him on this year’s battleground map, the race in Minnesota had appeared to tighten this summer. But Joe Biden is now in a commanding position there, running ahead by about 9 percentage points .
The Bemidji rally came less than two weeks before Trump’s last rally, Sept. 30 in Duluth, which health officials said they are continuing to monitor .
President Trump is planning to host up to 2,000 people on the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday for his first in-person event since he announced he had tested positive for the coronavirus, three people familiar with the plans said on Friday, and his campaign announced that he would hold a rally in Florida on Monday.
President Trump at the White House after
returning from Walter Reed National Military
Medical Center on Monday.
Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
The event, which was first reported by ABC News, continues Mr. Trump’s pattern of using the White House for political events, as he did with his speech to the Republican National Convention in August.
Some in the White House and on the Trump campaign expressed concern that the event would serve to underscore existing criticism that Mr. Trump has been cavalier about a virus that has killed over 210,000 Americans.
The event will come just two weeks after a Rose Garden celebration of the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, an event that White House officials are looking at as the possible source of an outbreak of the coronavirus that has infected Mr. Trump, the first lady and at least two dozen other people .
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease specialist, told CBS News Radio Friday that there had been “a superspreader event in the White House,” noting that people had crowded together there without wearing masks.
One person familiar with the planning for the White House event said that all attendees would be required to bring and wear a mask, and that they would have to submit to a temperature check and a fill out a questionnaire.
Mr. Trump is also planning to hit the campaign trail again, even as outside medical experts caution that doing so could pose risks to himself and others: The campaign announced that he would deliver remarks at a “Make America Great Again” event at Orlando Sanford International Airport on Monday at 7 p.m. Eastern time.
Attendees at the Florida event will be asked to sign a disclaimer stating that “you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to Covid-19.”
After the president staged his acceptance speech on the South Lawn during the Republican National Convention in August, the president joked about the agitation he had caused among his critics about how he may have violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities while on the job, by using the White House grounds for political purposes.
He said he thought he would do it more.
Outside medical experts said that resuming public duties might worsen Mr. Trump’s condition, which could still deteriorate in the next several days. Covid-19 patients can take turns for the worse during the second week of illness .
Then there are the potential risks Mr. Trump could pose to others. According to C.D.C. guidelines , people with mild to moderate cases of Covid-19 most likely “remain infectious no longer than 10 days after symptom onset.”
Joseph R. Biden Jr. said on Friday of the planned rally, “I wouldn’t show up unless you had a mask and were distanced.”
Dr. Sean Conley, the White House physician, said on Thursday that Mr. Trump could safely “return to public engagements” on Saturday — a timeline that was questioned by outside experts.
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I haven't looked it up but if I recall correctly she was banned from working as a nanny but she continued several times and was then locked up.
Two other people who contracted the virus reported attending a protest in response to the rally.
Sounds like the virus can be picked up anywhere people congregate....be it rallies or protests.
Wondering why there have been no reports of case spikes following previous Trump rallies...or the Sturgis get together.
It's obvious Dr. Conley is on the take.
Lord! Help us all to stay safe and healthy! Why can't Donald act predictably sometimes? Has he always been the odd duck in his world?