In the US, cases of corona continue to increase. Dr Anthony Fauci, one of the top infectious-disease expert in the US, declared on Friday that an event hosted by the White House last month was a “superspreader” as a number of attendees tested positive for Covid-19, including some US senators and members of President Donald Trump’s staff and campaign team. The US president and first lady Melania Trump, who had attended the event, also got corona infected, but their infections were not discovered back to the White House event held on September 26.
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More than 34 members of the White House staff and contacts have so far been infected, according to multiple news reports. “I think the data speak for themselves,” Dr. Fauci said in an interview on CBS News on Friday. “We had a super spreader event in the White House, and it was in a situation where people were crowded together and were not wearing masks. So the data speak for themselves.”
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Fauci’s characterizing of the event as a “superspreader event” came on the day the White House announced Trump’s return to election campaigning with a speech from the White House scheduled for later on Saturday and a rally in Florida on Monday. Meanwhile, the second presidential debate between Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, scheduled for October 15, has been canceled by the independent body that conducts the debates. It had earlier announced that the debate would be held virtually, which was rejected by the US president who had demanded that it should be held in-person but later.