Trump and Covid-19: What next in US presidential race?
06 October 2020 |
12:10 pm
First the US president caught Covid-19, then he was hospitalised and then... he went for a car ride? Donald Trump says he has "learned a lot" about Covid over the past few days. We ask our panel about it and whether his illness will once and for all end the argument over social distancing.
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