2 Trump campaign staffers who were at the president's Tulsa rally tested positive for COVID-19

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At least eight staffers who were involved in President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally on Saturday have tested positive for COVID-19.

Two staffers on President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign who were at the president's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday tested positive for COVID-19, the campaign announced on Monday.

The additional two staffers were found to have the virus after the Tulsa rally when they were tested as a precaution for flying home, Tim Murtaugh, communications director for the Trump campaign, told Monica Alba of NBC News. Top public health experts raised concerns about Trump holding a rally amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to roughly 120,000 reported deaths in the US thus far. The general worry was that the rally could become a superspreader event for the virus.

Story continuesLocal officials were also worried that the event could contribute to the spread of the virus, with cases on the rise in recent days."I'm not positive that everything is safe," Mayor GT Bynum, a Republican, said last Wednesday when discussing Trump's rally.

 

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