Democrats on Monday laid out plans to limit prime-time programming and increase testing for the coronavirus at their national convention next month, and the University of Notre Dame withdrew from hosting the first presidential debate in September, underscoring how the pandemic is upending some of the highest-profile events still to come on the 2020 campaign calendar. Anyone who attends next month’s Democratic National Convention, a roster that is expected to be narrowed to about 300 people, must test negative for the coronavirus when they arrive in Milwaukee and agree to be tested daily for the virus, convention planners said Monday. The new health protocols illustrate the extraordinary nature of hosting a national political convention amid a public health pandemic that continues to spread across the country. In addition to submitting to daily testing, convention attendees will be required to self-isolate for 72 hours before traveling to Milwaukee, wear a mask “at all times” in Milwaukee and “avoid bars, restaurants and other locations where social distancing is not possible or not practiced.”Convention planners did not indicate how they would build the capacity to test every convention attendee every day.

Source: New York Times July 27, 2020 12:00 UTC