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President Trump tweeted that he and First Lady Melania Trump 

have tested positive for the coronavirus. 

MPR News host Kerri Miller checked in with an MPR News politics reporter and a historian on the historic and political implications of this news. She also asked two infectious disease experts what Trump’s diagnosis might mean for people who have been in contact with him, including several Minnesota politicians in recent days.

 is a professor of history at Texas A&M University and a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

 is chief health officer at the University of Michigan. She is also a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.

 is an epidemiologist and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

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President Trump has announced he tested positive for the coronavirus. We checked in with several experts on the historic and political implications of this news and answered listeners’ questions about what it might mean for people who have been in contact with the president, including several Minnesota politicians.

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