Trump says he doesn’t believe he’s contagious and wants to resume rallies

President Trump says he doesn’t believe he is contagious and, less than a week after testing positive for coronavirus, he is ready to resume campaign rallies. He says he is immune from another infection and attributed his recovery to being a “perfect physical specimen.”

However, for Trump to not be contagious it needs to have been at least 10 days, at a bare minimum, since his first symptoms, and he needs to be fever-free for 24 hours without taking medication that could reduce his fever. Trump should still be isolating, not campaigning, and while he may have some degree of protection, no one can say for certain whether he is immune.

Asked about criticism he was returning to the White House while still shedding the virus, Trump said he didn’t believe that was true. However, from what the science tell us about the virus, it is almost certainly true that he is shedding virus.

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