Trump speech attendees say they weren’t even asked if they had a cough

The mostly maskless crowd crammed onto the White House South Lawn for the president’s formal acceptance speech, sitting side by side. Trump campaign and convention officials admitted to The Washington Post that the vast majority of the crowd were not given rapid coronavirus tests, saying it was impossible to test so many people. Two anonymous guests told the newspaper they weren’t even questioned as to whether they had any symptoms, such as coughs or had their temperature taken—which has become standard fare for most Americans entering businesses, health facilities, or any places that have actual people in them. Amesh Adalja, an ­infectious-disease expert at Johns Hopkins University, said: “When you see this type of event… it cements the fact that they have never taken this outbreak seriously from the beginning.”