Trump Comes Down with COVID

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Update One: Trump to fly to Walter read and stay there for a few days. We are now in tea leave reading mode. The White House is far from transparent.

Let me be clear about this. The fact that the President of the United States came down with COVID-19 is far from surprising. Given how seriously, not, they have taken the virus it was a matter of time. Donald Trump got it from Hope Hicks, a longtime aide of the president. She had significant symptoms per the last reporting. The president is having mild symptoms. We also know at this time that likely the White House announcement for the Supreme Court was a super-spreader event. So far five people have gotten sick, Mike Lee of Utah, the head of the RNC, Hope Hicks, and both the president and the first lady.

This takes us into the Constitution and the continuity of government. Does it also lead to questions of how many people both Hicks and Trump could have infected? Hicks would be patient zero in this cluster because she was the first to come down with it. The disease infects, on average, three people. So far four more have come down with the disease. We also know that it is serious. It can kill even children, though the risk of serious complications goes up by age. The same goes for death.

So right now we can start speculating on how serious it is in this case. Medical…