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The list of confidants of US President Donald Trump infected with the coronavirus is getting longer. President Stephen Miller’s adviser also tested positive Tuesday, Trump’s spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox News.
Miller’s infection could also raise questions about Vice President Mike Pence’s upcoming television debate with rival candidate Kamala Harris. His wife, Katie Miller, a spokeswoman for Pence, flew with the vice president to Salt Lake City, where the debate will take place Wednesday night (local time). According to US media reports, her test Tuesday was negative, but she left Salt Lake City anyway.
Meanwhile, Pence’s personal physician stressed Tuesday that the vice president’s coronavirus tests remained negative and that he did not need quarantine. In recent days, McEnany and several other Trump confidants had been diagnosed with a coronavirus infection. The president of the United States announced his Covid illness on Friday and spent the weekend in the hospital.
“Pandemic Like Flu”: Trump Entries Removed
Social networks Twitter and Facebook have removed entries from the president of the United States, Donald Trump, because they violated the rules against disinformation about the corona virus. Trump had suggested in his posts Tuesday that the pandemic was like the flu. “We have removed this false information about the dangerousness of the coronavirus,” a Facebook spokesperson told Reuters. At that time, Trump’s contribution had been shared about 26,000 times.
Twitter stopped forwarding a tweet from Trump and posted a warning in the president’s original post. Trump broke the rule of spreading misleading and potentially dangerous information related to the epidemic. About 22,000 deaths in the US were attributed to influenza during the 2019-20 season. More than 210,000 Americans have died from illnesses caused by the virus to date.
“Silicon Valley and most of the major media outlets constantly use their platforms to create panic and censor President Trump,” said Courtney Parella, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign. These groups were pursuing their own goals even at this critical moment in the fight against the virus.
More than 40,000 new cases
According to a tally by the Reuters news agency, the number of new known corona infections in the US has risen by at least 43.653 to 7.53 million in 24 hours. The number of deaths increased by at least 735 to 210,968.
