Did You Wake Anyone Up to Tell Them Trump Has COVID-19?
On the impulse to tell the person next to you when a big story breaks
by Julie Beck
Oct 03, 2020
3 minutes
When Mira Assaf Kafantaris’s husband woke her up late Thursday night, she was worried that something had happened to her parents. They live in Lebanon, she told me, and because of the time difference, she’s always afraid that if they were ever hurt, she would get a call while she was asleep. But her husband had less personal news to share—he wanted to tell her that President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, had contracted COVID-19.
Kafantaris, a college professor who lives in
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