First lady Melania Trump will not be joining her husband, President Trump, on the campaign trail like she originally planned.
The first lady was expected to appear at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, marking her first campaign rally appearance in over a year, but it will have to wait because she’s dealing with a lingering cough weeks after she tested positive for COVID-19, her chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, told the Washington Examiner.
Grisham said the decision for her not to attend the rally was made out of an abundance of caution given her recent coronavirus diagnosis. This would have been her first public appearance since being stricken with the virus along with her husband in early October.
The Trumps were both sidelined for a week in October, when their family, including teenage son Barron Trump, all contracted the virus, though it remains unclear where they got it.
Melania Trump, 50, attended the Rose Garden event last month, where the president announced Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his latest pick for the Supreme Court, an event that Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, has dubbed a “superspreader” event.
In the same statement on Wednesday in which she revealed Barron’s coronavirus diagnosis, the first lady announced that both she and her son had since tested negative and added that she hoped “to resume my duties as soon as I can.”
The rally in Erie on Tuesday is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. EDT. Election Day is two weeks away.
