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Reporter Who Covered Donald Trump's Rally In Tulsa Tests Positive For Coronavirus

  • June 27, 2020
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A reporter who covered President Donald Trump’s controversial and ultimately under-attended indoor campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last Saturday said he has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Paul Monies, a staff reporter for the nonprofit Oklahoma Watch news organization, told The Associated Press Friday that he “can’t say definitively” that he contracted the virus at the BOK Center event.

“But it’s someone I’ve been in contact with in the last two weeks,” he told AP.

“I’m pretty surprised,” Monies wrote on Twitter, noting he was asymptomatic, felt “fine” and had even run five miles that morning. He’d “spent the last few hours calling people I know I’ve been in contact with in the last 14 days,” he added.

Friends, I tested positive for #COVID19. I’m pretty surprised. I have zero symptoms (so far) and I feel fine. In fact, I ran 5 miles this morning. I spent the last few hours calling people I know I’ve been in contact with in the last 14 days. Be safe out there. 😷 https://t.co/oGpKsGs5u0

— Paul Monies (@pmonies) June 26, 2020

Monies said that during his six hours in the 19,000-capacity arena in Tulsa, he wore a mask and mostly adhered to social distancing measures aimed at slowing the spread of the virus, per AP.

In a second tweet, Monies said he was “still trying to process the news.”

“Fingers crossed I stay symptom-free,” he wrote. “See y’all (in real life, with a mask) in a couple of weeks.”

Thanks for all your kind words and well wishes, friends. Fingers crossed I stay symptom-free. I’m still trying to process the news and feel bad for inconveniencing my loved ones and friends. See y’all (in real life, with a mask) in a couple of weeks. #QuarantineLife

— Paul Monies (@pmonies) June 26, 2020

Monies took what he described in another tweet as the “post #TulsaTrumpRally #COVID19 test” on Thursday.

Oklahoma public health officials had urged everyone who attended the rally ― which the Trump campaign was repeatedly asked to postpone, over fears it could become a super-spreader event ― to get tested afterward. Some health experts feared that up to 1,000 people could become infected during the rally.

Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts used a wartime analogy to describe how he was preparing to cover the event.

Six Trump campaign staffers who’d worked on the rally tested positive for the coronavirus, it emerged on the day of the event, as did two members of the Secret Service. It forced dozens of other agents to self-quarantine amid fears they’d also been exposed to the contagion.

The Trump campaign had advised people seeking tickets to the rally, via a waiver on its website, that they could not launch legal action if they contracted the virus there ― a widely condemned move that legal experts suggested would not actually prevent lawsuits.

Masks were optional for people attending the rally, despite Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines advising people to wear them in public.

Trump spoke at another indoor rally in Phoenix on Tuesday.

This week, Oklahoma and several other states saw a rapid uptick in the number of confirmed new cases of COVID-19.

In the state of Oklahoma, the virus has killed at least 377 people and infected some 12,000 more.

Nationwide, it has claimed more than 125,000 lives.

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