Rudy Giuliani hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, got infected with the coronavirus, as announced by the president.
• The diagnosis comes a month after Trump’s reelection loss as Giuliani traveled a lot to key battleground states in an attempt to challenge the poll outcomes in favor of the president.
• In the past few months, several officials close to the president were also tested positive with COVID-19, including vice president Mike Pence.

Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s top lawyer, was diagnosed with COVID-19,  as confirmed by the president.

In an attempt to overturn the recent election results in favor of Trump, the former New York mayor has covered expansively the battleground states the last few weeks.

Trump announced Sunday afternoon that Giuliani was tested positive for the virus via Twitter and expressed that he wants the attorney to recover soon, saying that they will carry on.

Earlier the same day, Giuliani appeared on Fox News to discuss the legal challenges they filed in many states for President Trump.

According to CNN, Giuliani was admitted to Georgetown University Hospital on Sunday.

Giuliani’s coronavirus diagnosis was only over a month following Trump’s reelection bid loss. The president himself, meanwhile, was also infected with COVID-19 in October. After that, several White House officials and others close to Trump’s have also contracted the virus, including administration chief of staff Mark Meadows and housing and urban development secretary Ben Carson.

Around November, special assistant to Trump Andrew Giuliani, Giuliani’s son, also confirmed being positive for COVID-19.

The spread of coronavirus within Trump’s team highlights the seemingly casual handling the president has displayed to a disease that left more than 280,000 casualties across the nation.

Among those tested positive with coronavirus now also include vice president Mike Pence, the chief of staff, the press secretary of White House, advisers Stephen Miller and Hope Hicks, Republican National Committee chairman, and Trump’s campaign head.

The last leg of Trump’s campaign was spent mostly in convincing the public that the COVID-19  was declining, and the president frequently claimed that the virus would be gone after the Nov. election.

However, the contrary happened, as the U.S faced a new record high in the surge of new cases.

Trump administration’s coronavirus task force coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx,  appeared to implicitly criticize Trump’s approach toward the virus. 

Dr. Birx said during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that not following the health protocols such as mask-wearing and avoiding crowds amidst the pandemic, as displayed by Trump and other administration officials, could be the worst thing that the nation will encounter, adding that the approach against the infection should be evidenced-based.

Source: AOL