(Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, will be evaluated by COVID-19, an aide said Monday as the crusade prepares for the option of new public events starting in November. Choice.
Since the coronavirus began to spread widely in the United States in March, Biden has held few public events, the maximum near his home in Delaware.
But after his official appointment to last week’s Democratic National Convention, the crusade is expanding his fitness protocols to a new phase of the race that can see the former vice president closer to the public.
“In line with Vice President Biden’s transparency, we will make it public that Vice President or Senator Harris has ever shown a positive COVID-19 case,” Reuters a crusade assistant told Reuters.
The attendee said Biden, 77, Harris, 55, and the key group of workers who interact with them would be evaluated “as normal,” according to the recommendation of the medical advisors.
“That’s what leadership looks like,” the user said.
Journalists regularly asked Biden if he had been tested for COVID-19, the coronavirus disease, and he said no.
He criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the virus, which has killed more than 176,000 Americans, as disastrous.
During cross appearances, many of which are transmitted online, Biden wears a mask and maintains a distance to show his adherence to public aptitude guidelines.
By contrast, 74-year-old Trump, who will face Biden in the November 3 election, downplayed the virus in his early days, once he dressed in a politically correct mask and was reluctant to cover his face.
Trump first wore a mask in public during the pandemic, a tone replacement to inspire Americans to wear them when the country began to see a resurgence of cases.
(Information through Trevor Hunnicutt and Michael Martina; Editing through Peter Cooney)