Lawmakers push to end Utah’s COVID-19 emergency declaration
Matthew Burbank, University of Utah political science professor, said Trump’s positive
diagnosis does have the potential to shape attitudes of Utahns, but that might depend
on the president’s experience with the disease.
“If the president doesn’t really have any symptoms and he says, ‘I got it and it didn’t bother me,’ it might reinforce this point of view that, ‘We need to get it and get it over with,’” Burbank said, noting that that sort of thinking can be problematic, especially because so much remains unknown about COVID-19’s long term impacts.