The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)
Trump hits out at Fauci mask advice
President Donald Trump has taken some of his most overt swipes yet at Dr Anthony Fauci while campaigning in Nor th Carolina.
President Trump is defending his administration’s response to the pandemic, as he generally does at his rallies.
He offered a reminder that Dr Fauci at one point said that people should not wear a mask.
The doctor has said that an early recommendation about not wearing a mask was because there had been a shortage of personal protective equipment for health professionals.
He has since called for universal mask wearing.
President Trump called Dr Fauci a nice guy, “so I keep him around”.
But he also described Dr Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, as a Democrat.
“Everybody knows that. He’ sCuomo’ s friend ,” President Trump said, a reference to New York governor Andrew Cuomo.
Dr Faucih as been studiously apolitical over a five-decade career in public health.
The doctor has expressed dismay that the president used his comments in a campaign advert and says his comments were taken out of context.
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said that vicepresidential nominee
Kamala Harris will suspend in- person e vents until Monday after two people associated with the campaign tested positive for coronavirus.
The campaign said Mr Biden had no exposure, though he and Ms Harris spent several hours campaigning together in Arizona on October 8.
Ms Harris had been scheduled to travel to North Carolina for events encouraging voters to cast early ballots.
The campaign told reporters that Ms Harris’ communications director and a flight crew member tested positive after a recent campaign trip.
Campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said “neither of these individuals had any contact with Vice-President Biden, with Senator Harris or any other staff member since testing positive or in the 48-hour period prior to their positive test results”.
But Ms O’Malley Dillon said Ms Harris would suspend travel for several days “out of an abundance of caution”.
Mr Biden’s last announced negative test was Tuesday.