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'A Setup For Disaster': Doctors Issue Ominous Coronavirus Warnings About Trump Rally

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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Doctors spelled out the potential health risks associated with President ’s upcoming rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, amid the pandemic during interviews on cable news Friday.Next week’s indoor rally at the 19,000-capacity BOK Center could become a super-spreader event, two medical professionals warned, noting how the Trump campaign has to its website telling people wanting tickets that they can’t sue if they contract the contagion there.AdvertisementOklahoma has of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, in recent days. host suggested to Dr. , a primary care physician, that “a packed indoor facility with people yelling and screaming and cheering next to each other without masks” was “a worst-case scenario for a super-spreading event” and asked if it was “a fair read of the science.”“Not only is that a fair read, but we have evidence that that is exactly how we are getting these ‘super spreader’ events, whether it’s in a choir, in a church, at a party,” responded Patel. “We know that this is just a setup for disaster.”“Just have the rallies outside,” said Hayes, who acknowledged not knowing what measures the Trump campaign was planning to take to stop the possible spread of the virus at the rally. Check out the interview above. AdvertisementTrump’s campaign manager 300,000 tickets have been registered for the event. On Friday, the president announced the rally would be moved by one day so it Cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Reiner, former Vice President Dick Cheney, meanwhile, suggested calling the Trump campaign’s bluff on its waiver.“I think if the risk is low and if it’s safe to gather in large numbers at a political rally, I would just challenge the president to drop that disclaimer, drop that proviso to the attendees,” he told ’s Erin Burnett.“Why is the president asking attendees to assume a risk?” he added. “Look, the CDC today issued guidance on large gatherings, and they warned about it. Tulsa is a place which actually today had a record number of cases. So, the president is holding a rally in a hot zone. That’s how you propagate the pandemic.”Check out the interview here:"If the risk is low, and if it's safe to gather in large numbers at a political rally, I would just challenge the President to drop that disclaimer." - Dr. Reiner, former WH medical adviser, on the Trump campaign saying it can't be held liable if rally attendees contract Covid-19 — OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN)AdvertisementA HuffPost Guide To Coronavirus Suggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Doctors spelled out the potential health risks associated with President ’s upcoming rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, amid the pandemic during interviews on cable news Friday.Next week’s indoor rally at the 19,000-capacity BOK Center could become a super-spreader event, two medical professionals warned, noting how the Trump campaign has to its website telling people wanting tickets that they can’t sue if they contract the contagion there.AdvertisementOklahoma has of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, in...

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