Coronavirus and Elections: How badly could the virus disrupt politics?
President Donald Trump is just one Republican figure who has been infected by coronavirus in a cluster whose size is currently unknown. Other prominent figures who have been infected from the same cluster include Stephen Miller, First Lady Melania Trump and Senator for North Carolina Thom Tillis. The president was first diagnosed on Oct. 1, after it was found that Hope Hicks, a senior counselor to the president, tested positive. The virus is believed to have spread to the rest of the president’s circle after an event at the Rose Garden in celebration of the nomination of Amy Coney Barret.