Some attendees skip masks as Trump speaks at White House event – live

‘A surreal reality show’: Trump’s terrible week after Covid diagnosisEx-member of Amy Coney Barrett’s faith group speaks outDebate schedule in disarray after Trump refuses virtual eventSign up for Fight to Vote – our weekly US election newsletter 7.18pm BST Trump calls lockdown policies during Covid-19 “unscientific”. His contempt for the more than 210,000 people who have died of Covid-19 is astonishing. A model by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine predicts if social distancing measures are eased, there were will be around 285,000 additional deaths between now and 1 February, bringing the total death toll to just over 500,000 in the US. 7.16pm BST Trump, who once led the charge in a campaign that ended with five young Black men wrongly convicted of rape, boasts about how much he has done to help Black people in the criminal justice system. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/oct/10/trump-coronavirus-live-white-house-event-debate-biden-latest-updates #us_politics #donald_trump #coronavirus_outbreak #us_elections_2020 #joe_biden #us_news #world_news