The virus, that is… get your mind out of the gutter.
The timeline seems way too fast for her case to have infected him and then lead to hospitalization…
This means he had it in the debate…
IF they are regularly testing him, they would have known he had it- so either they are not testing him regularly, or they all knew and allowed him to infect people around him…
All this assumes it’s not a desperate fabricated sympathy ploy…