The Republican mayor of Miami said Donald Trump shouldn’t come to his city for the Oct. 15 debate with Joe Biden if the president is still testing positive with Covid19
Joe Biden looks to seal the electionDr. Aileen Marty, a Florida International University epidemiologist who advises Miami-Dade County government and its school district, said she needs far more data on Trump’s illness to be conclusive about his condition on Oct. 15. But when she factors in the information that’s been publicly released, her knowledge of the virus and the 74-year-old Trump’s obesity, she thinks he should not come at all.
Dr. Mary Jo Trepka, Marty’s colleague at FIU, said, “I don’t think plexiglass can hurt.” But if she were advising the campaigns or the Commission on Presidential Debates, she would say they should not be in the same room. Most people clear the virus within 10 days, she noted, which is why the CDC recommends infected people isolate for that period of time if they’ve improved and have no fever without the use of drugs like Tylenol.
Suarez said his concerns are rooted in personal as well as political experience. Miami had some of the state’s strictest coronavirus-related lockdowns and highest number of coronavirus cases in Florida. Suarez himself was one of the first to get the virus, possibly from the press secretary of Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, who was later infected himself. Bolsonaro has long downplayed the dangers of the virus — even to a greater degree than Trump.
The mayor of surrounding Miami-Dade County, Republican Carlos Gimenez, said he wasn’t sure about the need for plexiglass. A Trump ally, Gimenez said he would “ask our medical advisers on distancing and any other measures. I’ll have a meeting with them before the debate.”
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