Politics & Government

Trump Scraps Planned Southwestern PA Event

The president's campaign abruptly halted plans for an event in Beaver County Monday.

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PITTSBURGH, PA — President Donald Trump's campaign has canceled plans to hold an event in Beaver County on Monday, according to multiple reports.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Trump was considering holding an event in the Pittsburgh area. The event was never officially announced.

Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity Thursday night that he will hold a rally in Florida on Saturday, little more than a week after he was hospitalized after contracting the coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says people with the virus remain contagious for as long as 20 days after they begin experiencing symptoms.

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Dr. Sean Conley, the president's personal physician, wrote in a memo released by the White House Thursday that Saturday will be 10 days since Trump was diagnosed with the virus "Based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the President's safe return to public engagements at that time," Conley wrote.

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