Joe Biden stated President Donald Trump's

 Joe Biden stated President Donald Trump's nice check for coronavirus is a "bracing reminder" of the seriousness of the pandemic.

"We need to take this virus severely. It's now not going away robotically," the previous vp said Friday in a speech at some point of a pared-again experience to Michigan that accompanied Biden testing bad for the virus in the morning. "We have to do our component to be accountable. It approach following the technological know-how, listening to the experts, washing our palms, social distancing. It way wearing a masks in public. It manner encouraging others to do so as properly."

Wearing a masks and status in the front of an American flag inside the car parking zone of a union corridor in Grand Rapids, the Democratic nominee stated he and his spouse, Jill Biden, ship their "prayers for the health and safety" of Trump and primary girl Melania Trump, who also examined high quality.

He also implored Americans to put on masks -- a message he has brought for months, but with political implications that have been difficult to miss after Trump's entourage had omitted the Cleveland Clinic's regulations requiring masks at Tuesday night's debate, even as Biden's guests wore mask.

"Be patriotic," Biden said. "It's now not about being a hard guy. It's about doing all your part. Wearing a mask is not handiest going to shield you, but it additionally protects the ones around you. Your mother, your dad, your brother, your sister, husband, spouse, neighbor, co-worker. Don't simply do it for yourself. Do it for the people you love, the humans you figure with."

The Michigan experience changed into the primary glimpse at how Biden would possibly marketing campaign after Trump's fine check. The Democratic nominee scrapped a 2d planned forestall at a nearby Democratic headquarters, citing the expected crowd length and more cramped quarters.

Additionally, Biden's marketing campaign is pulling its terrible commercials Friday, going with all-superb messages after Trump's take a look at, a marketing campaign aide stated. The aide said the selection to pull poor advertisements turned into made before the White House announced Friday evening that Trump turned into going to Walter Reed clinical middle for a few days.

In reaction to the Biden campaign's choice to drag bad TV advertisements even as the President is hospitalized, spokesman Tim Murtaugh instructed CNN the Trump campaign will now not make a similar flow.

Biden stated he had been examined twice Friday -- consisting of once with the aid of Dr. Kevin O'Connor, his former White House physician -- and that "the whole lot's clean."

After Trump said on Twitter in the early morning hours Friday that he had examined positive, the primary phrase from Biden's marketing campaign on his very own fitness came in a statement from O'Connor.

"Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden underwent PCR trying out for COVID-19 these days and COVID-19 became no longer detected. I am reporting this out in my capability as both Vice President Biden and Dr. Biden's number one care health practitioner," O'Connor said.

Polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, checks are taken into consideration the gold widespread of coronavirus tests -- with consequences taking longer than 15-minute rapid tests but turning in extra correct results.