Analysis: Trump May Have Exposed 500+ To COVID

The Washington Post reports:

When he first learned he had tested positive for the corona­virus, President Donald Trump was already aboard Air Force One, en route to a massive rally in Middletown, Pa. With him on the plane that Saturday evening were dozens of people — senior aides, Air Force One personnel, junior staffers, journalists and other members of the large entourage typical for a presidential trip — all squeezed together in the recirculating air of a jetliner.

Trump was hospitalized at Walter Reed about a week later. From the day he tested positive until his hospitalization, Trump came in contact with more than 500 people, either those in proximity to him or at crowded events, not including rallygoers, according to a Washington Post analysis of the president’s interactions during that period. That seven-day window reveals a president who took a reckless, and potentially dangerous, approach to handling the coronavirus, including Trump’s own positive test.

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From the day of his first positive test until his hospitalization last year, Trump came in contact with more than 500 people in proximity to him or at crowded events, not including rallygoers, according to a Post analysis https://t.co/XTolWRF4fP

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 6, 2021