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BBC OS Conversations: US election: Testing positive for Covid-19

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US Election: Testing positive for Covid-19

10/10/2020 GMT

US election: Testing positive for Covid-19

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Americans discuss President Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis

The President of the United States is recovering from Covid-19, after a week when the world watched him leaving hospital briefly in a motorcade to wave supporters and - on his return to the White House - moving his mask on a balcony. Donald Trump then told the country there was nothing to fear from the disease. So how were his words received by the Americans across the country? Nuala McGovern hears from those in California, Iowa and Alabama who were thrilled by the president's show of strength against Covid-19 and from others less enamoured by his attitude. 
 
As well as coronavirus, race remains a divisive issue in the US. Nuala returns to Charlottesville, a city scarred by race protests, and brings together a Deacon and a student activist to get their thoughts on race in this election.

(Photo: President Donald Trump pulls off his protective face mask as he poses atop the Truman Balcony of the White House Credit: Erin Scott/File Photo/Reuters)

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