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Early Friday, the White House canceled its planned campaign rally in the crucial state of Florida later that day.
Trump’s official physician, Sean Conley, said in a statement that the president and his wife “are doing well at this time and plan to stay home in the White House during their convalescence.”
Conley said: “I hope the President will continue to serve without interruption while he recovers.”
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The shocking news came just after it was reported Thursday that one of Trump’s closest advisers, Hope Hicks, contracted the virus.
Hicks traveled with Trump to Cleveland for his first debate with Joe Biden on Tuesday. She was with him again for a campaign rally in Minnesota on Wednesday.
Trump says the United States has left behind the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans, and rarely wears a mask, noting that it receives frequent testing.
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Yet its own health experts have often given less optimistic assessments of the state of the pandemic in the world’s richest country.
And Trump has been heavily criticized for large rallies where few fans wear masks. He himself has given mixed signals to the public about the need to wear masks.
