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15 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Kamala Harris has canceled all campaign travel through this weekend “out of an abundance of caution” after a flight crew member and her communications director tested positive for coronavirus politico.com/news/2020/10/1…
Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, has tested negative for coronavirus twice over the past week, Biden's campaign said politico.com/news/2020/10/1…
Neither of the individuals who tested positive had contact with Kamala Harris or Joe Biden “or any other staffers since testing positive or in the 48 hours prior to their positive test results,” Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said politico.com/news/2020/10/1…
O’Malley Dillon attributed the campaign’s “strict” protocols with potentially protecting the infection of other campaign staffers or the candidates politico.com/news/2020/10/1…

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