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President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19. Here's what we know.

President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19. Here's what we know.

Apple News Today
Oct 2, 2020 11 min
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<p>President Trump and the First Lady have tested positive for COVID-19. <a href="https://apple.news/Aj6jAjcjfQ1eda2pIiA7YPw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Bloomberg</a> and <a href="https://apple.news/AD29R-DrXSvCRkO46HTFCKg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">CNN</a> have the latest updates.</p> <p>Zeynep Tufekci writes for the <a href="https://apple.news/AEeGWztiwSqiwClYBfEv1ew?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Atlantic</a> that a more effective strategy for stemming the spread of COVID-19 is to focus on clusters of the virus, rather than each individual case.</p> <p>The <a href="https://apple.news/AStQ05yE1S5mRkvFDQ4mS9w?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Wall Street Journal</a> has a collection of stories about how the coronavirus pandemic and economic recession are affecting women. <a href="https://apple.news/AgK58fcFnS6ap48IDm8Gmqw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">One piece</a> details a recent study that found a higher percentage of women than men are considering leaving the workforce. And the <a href="https://apple.news/Axl7Myt3yRdyMh4dylYmDoA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> is out with new analysis looking at how the economic recession has hit certain groups, like women, people of color, and younger people, much harder than others.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/AwTgK8IuyTAqXrJiy72YfDA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Politico</a> reports that the president&rsquo;s calls for poll watchers has led to supporters showing up at election offices to observe people requesting or turning in their mail ballots. And <a href="https://apple.news/AWH6eqeMgRx6ojC1TnHv8Wg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Marketplace</a> describes what happened when the Republican Party sent off-duty local law-enforcement officials to polling stations in majority Black and Latino communities in New Jersey in 1981.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/AhH2xfJB1R2a_edTUx6VZoA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Vice</a> celebrates an African giant pouched rat who saves human lives in Cambodia by detecting landmines, and was recently given an award for braver</p>

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