President Donald Trump arrives at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Since he tested positive for the coronavirus, nearly 100,000 new cases in the US have been reported. | Alex Edelman/Getty Images

America’s Covid-19 outbreak is a lot bigger than President Trump.

Since the world learned shortly after midnight on Friday that President Donald Trump had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, more than 97,000 other Americans have been confirmed to have the virus. And the Covid-19 deaths of 1,575 people in the US have been reported, according to the Covid Tracking Project.

The health of the president of the United States, after he contracted the virus that has plagued the country since February, is inevitably going to be the biggest news story for the foreseeable future. People want to know how the nation’s leader is faring, and the White House’s attempts to obfuscate