People watch the first presidential debate at a sports bar in Washington, DC, on September 29. | Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

Trump’s diagnosis could mean a massive amount of uncertainty for the November election.

The final month of the 2020 presidential campaign has been thrown into a massive amount of uncertainty as President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus.

America’s Covid-19 crisis has already affected the election in tangible ways, with a huge surge of mail-in ballot requests and early voting in multiple states. Now, the coronavirus has reached one of the candidates. Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden are both in their 70s and therefore at higher risk for more severe Covid-19 symptoms. Biden has tested negative for Covid-19, according to a statement from his doctor released on Friday.

Trump could have a mild case of the