Billboard - Trump's Iowa rally will be 'superspreader event'

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National agricultural advocacy group Rural America 2020 began displaying a digital billboard outside of the Des Moines International Airport in Iowa on Tuesday ahead of President Trump's Wednesday rally, warning residents that it will be a “COVID superspreader event.”

The group on Tuesday tweeted an image of the billboard, which says “TRUMP COVID SUPERSPREADER EVENT” along with a large arrow pointed toward the airport where the president will speak to supporters.

The Trump campaign said in a statement to The Hill on Sunday that rally attendees would be given temperature checks before being allowed to enter the event.

“The event is at an open door airplane hangar where people will be expressing their First Amendment rights and hearing from the President of the United States. We will have safety protocols in place. All attendees will be given a temperature check, masks which they are instructed to wear, and access to hand sanitizer," Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign’s communications director, told The Hill.

Cownie's comments came the same day Axios reported that Trump had instructed his aides to put him on the campaign trail every day between now and the election, with one adviser reportedly saying that this could "kill" the 74-year-old president as he recovers from the virus.

Upon returning to the White House, Mr. Trump urged supporters not to be afraid of the virus or let it "dominate" their lives — an approach Fauci does not embrace.

"That's sort of like saying someone was speeding in a car at 95 miles an hour and didn't get in an accident, so I can go ahead and speed and not get in an accident. There's a great deal of variability," Fauci said. "We're very, very pleased that the president did so well when he was infected with the coronavirus, but there are also a lot of people who are his age and his weight which did not do as well as the president did. The president was fortunate."

Fauci said Wednesday that he signed off on the president's participation in an NBC town hall Thursday night after looking at the "totality" of the COVID-related tests the president has taken.

"I, and one of my colleagues who's very experienced in this, Dr. Cliff Lane, came to the conclusion — I think certainly correctly — that he is of no threat to transmit the virus to anybody else," Fauci said. Asked whether the president is putting the people who travel with him in danger at this point, Fauci said: "The answer to that is no, he is not."

Asked about the potential risk of reinfection, Fauci said, "Absolutely, for certain, it occurs," but he noted that so far only anecdotal evidence exists and experts do not know how common it really is.