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Joe Biden: “Quite frankly, I wasn't surprised. For the last three months I'm on the telephone and on Zoom with some of the leading…”

On the recordOctober 5, 2020
Quite frankly, I wasn't surprised. For the last three months I'm on the telephone and on Zoom with some of the leading immunologists in the nation. And they go through everything that's happening. And so, the idea that COVID-19 does not spread in proximity when you don't have a mask on, you're not socially distancing, when there's large groups of people when you're inside, particularly when you're outside, that's not surprising.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
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msnbc.com

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Biden expresses that he was not surprised by Trump's COVID-19 infection due to his disregard for health protocols.

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