Coronavirus update

Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) on Friday said the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was told to "stand down" and not appear on five Sunday morning talk shows to discuss the coronavirus.

 President Trump says that Democrats are using the virulent coronavirus as a “hoax” to damage him and his administration. “The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,” he said from a campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina. “This is their new hoax.” The coronavirus, which began in Wuhan, China, has now killed more than 2,800 people worldwide and infected more than 80,000.

 Said Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf: “There’s been nothing like this. We’re going to go through a period, obviously, where public health officials and experts are going to say no shaking hands, no public contact … We may be witnessing an era where television, or more so, social media, becomes the means to campaign in a coronavirus world.” 

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• CDC guide to dealing with it
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