Trump visited NC a week before testing positive for coronavirus

The incubation period for the virus is thought to be as long as 14 days, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Transmission of the virus likely happens before someone is feeling symptoms of the virus. Someone is likely symptomatic four to five days after they are infected, according to the CDC.

Hope Hicks, a close adviser to the president, tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday.

"If she had symptoms yesterday or the day before yesterday, and has tested positive, she could have for the last two weeks before that been actually infected and asymptotic but able to spread the coronavirus," he said.

Redlener said the network of people that Hicks could have possibly come into contact with that will now need to be tested is "vast."

Trump traveled to New Jersey on Thursday for a fundraiser, possibly exposing attendees to the virus.

Members of the Trump family, who possibly were exposed to the coronavirus, visited North Carolina in the past couple days. Ivanka Trump visited Gaston County on Thursday. She was with her father on Tuesday in Cleveland for the first presidential debate.

Testing positive for the coronavirus means that travel will be limited for Trump. The CDC says that a quarantine period after exposure should last for two weeks, and the election is in 32 days.

WRAL News reached out Friday morning to Gov. Roy Cooper for his response to the possible impact of the president testing positive for the virus, but he didn’t immediately respond.

The White House did not say how long Trump would have to remain isolated, but it canceled his plans to fly to Florida for a campaign rally Friday, stripping his public schedule for the day of everything except a midday telephone call “on COVID-19 support to vulnerable seniors.”