President Trump's positive test after MN visit and its political and historic implications
President Trump tweeted that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus.
MPR News host Kerri Miller checked in with an MPR News politics reporter and a historian on the historic and political implications of this news. She also asked two infectious disease experts what Trump’s diagnosis might mean for people who have been in contact with him, including several Minnesota politicians in recent days.
Guests:
Brian Bakst is a politics reporter for MPR News.
Elizabeth Cobbs is a professor of history at Texas A&M University and a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
Dr. Preeti Malani is chief health officer at the University of Michigan. She is also a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
Michael Osterholm is an epidemiologist and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
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