Reporter at Trump's Tulsa rally tests positive for COVID-19

[RandySF]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A journalist who attended President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa last week said Friday he has tested positive for COVID-19.

Oklahoma Watch reporter Paul Monies said he was notified Friday of his positive diagnosis.

“I’m pretty surprised,” Monies wrote on Twitter. “I have zero symptoms (so far) and I feel fine. In fact, I ran 5 miles this morning.”

Monies said he was inside the rally for about 6 hours on Saturday at the BOK Center and that he wore a mask and mostly practiced social distancing, except for when he went to the concourse to get a snack. He said he was never close to the president.

An epidemiologist at the Oklahoma City-County Health Department who notified Monies of his positive result said it’s difficult to determine if he contracted the coronavirus at the rally.

“I can’t say definitively that I got it at the rally,” Monies said. “But it’s someone I’ve been in contact with in the last two weeks.”

Monies said he hasn’t yet been contacted by contact tracers to try and determine everyone he’s been in contact with, but he has taken it upon himself to reach out to anyone he has been close to in the last two weeks.


https://apnews.com/3b4f69c49231eff5ec7dabfce02e55aa

[greenjar_01]

1. The whole place was a COVID trap

Thank God even some MAGA fools knew to stay away from that virus pit.

[napi21]

2. Rachel reported on her show tonight that ALL of DT's campaign coordinators who were at his AZ.

rally all tested positive for the coronavirus. I want to know how HE is escaping it? Maybe he's so rotten even the virus doesn't want to feast on him!

[RandySF]

3. I think he had it a couple months ago.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. I think if he gets CV19 we'll know it because it will SUCK for him. Obese, 74, no

exercise at all, plus he's a giant BABY - but - MOST OF ALL, if he'd already had it he would NEVER shut up about how he already had Covid and it was no big deal and it was just the sniffles and people need to get tougher, like him and everything will be just fine.

[Brother Buzz]

4. I understand it a bit different

Trump campaign staff were informed Friday night via email that all who were in Tulsa for last weekend's rally "are required to obtain a negative COVID-19 test this weekend," according to an email obtained by ABC. Reporting w/ @wsteaks & @Santucci

I find it disturbing the orange anus' campaign did not address concerns about the rally attendees. Not surprised, just disturbed.