What is surprising is that Trump did not catch the coronavirus earlier

“Meadows writes of his surprise that such a ‘huge germ’ could have contracted Covid, taking precautions including ‘bucket of hand sanitizer’ and ‘barely not’ [seeing] who[d]not strictly tested ‘. “

“Meadows said that the positive test was done with an old set of models. He told Trump that the test would be repeated with ‘the Binax system, and we expect the first test to be a false positive’. “

“After ‘a brief but intense wait’, Meadows called back with news of the negative test result.”