“Avoid crowds,” Nancy Messonnier of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters on Monday morning. As she was speaking, President Trump was holding a reelection event in Orlando.
WASHINGTON — The message was simple, even if it might prove difficult to follow: “Avoid crowds,” Nancy Messonnier, MD, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters on Monday morning.
Also as she was speaking, President Trump was holding a reelection event in Orlando. Disembarking from Air Force One, he proceeded to shake hands with supporters, in contravention of another public health warning. Even his vice president, Mike Pence, who closely follows the president’s guidance, has resorted to elbow bumps.
Rallies are, of course, the staple of any election effort. Sanders and Biden both had large rallies over the weekend. There is no indication that the United States is contemplating similar steps, but Messonnier and others have been preparing Americans for a long, hard fight — even as Trump and his allies have tried to minimize the scope of the outbreak.
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