Author: John Fritze, USA TODAY

As Trump remained focused on the election, COVID-19 cases have surged in the USA during November, with the country hitting record new infections.

Stepien’s diagnoses came on the same day the White House revealed Trump tested positive and was moved to Walter Reed Medical Center as a precaution.

Hours before the White House announced Trump tested positive for coronavirus, he told a dinner audience that the “end of the pandemic is in sight.”

The revelation Trump and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for coronavirus came after a top aide announced she also had a positive test result.

Trump signed a disaster declaration for Louisiana ahead of a trip to survey damage caused by Hurricane Laura, which made landfall on Thursday.

“Harvard’s going to return the money,” the president asserted at his daily press conference on Tuesday. “They shouldn’t have taken it.”

As unemployment claims soar with coronavirus, Trump has indicated a desire to ease social distancing guidelines. But states will make the final call.

Trump threatened sanctions on nations that have raised concern about accepting U.S. deportees because it could further spread the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump made an emergency declaration on coronavirus days after the World Health Organization declared the virus a pandemic. Here’s what that means.