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After three nights of hospitalization at Walter Reed Medical Center, Donald Trump was discharged at 7:30 p.m. on Monday. And the first thing he did when he got to the White House was pose for photographers from the Truman Balcony while removing his mask. Since he was hospitalized on Friday after testing positive for the coronavirus, the Republican President has tried to convey the image that it was all a mere setback and even ventured to say that you should not be afraid of Covid-19. “Don’t let it rule your life,” he said.
The contagion of Trump has shaken the presidential campaign, with just one month left before the November 3 elections in which his re-election is at stake. But the consequences of the President’s illness, which since the beginning of the pandemic has tried to lower his profile despite the more than 7.6 million infections and 214,000 deaths in the United States, remain to be seen.
If, before being hospitalized, Trump did not respect social distance and tried the mask very few times, even while he was hospitalized, he was stubborn with the virus. As it happens, the 74-year-old Trump does not tolerate the image of a “weak President.” So on Sunday he left the hospital for a few minutes and went out to greet his supporters from a van. Members of the Secret Service watched the action in astonishment and privately complained about the irresponsibility of the Trump patient. Now they will have to quarantine.
Some thirty officials of the US Executive contracted the virus, among them the White House press chief, but Trump has continued in his. However, although he has tried to be “oblivious” to Covid-19, his image could be affected among the undecided and his own supporters. For example, there is already criticism about why the President received an attention that is not available to most citizens, including an experimental antibody treatment that is still being tested in clinical trials and has been administered to only a few hundred people. . This is completely different from what happened to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was admitted to a public hospital when he contracted the coronavirus.
There are also doubts about the transparency of the entire procedure. Thus, it is not known if Trump tested positive in a test prior to the one reported by the White House at the time. In turn, the President’s own physician, Dr. Sean Conley, acknowledged that his patient “is not out of danger yet.” All of this puts at the top of the agenda an issue that Trump hates: the coronavirus.
The logic would indicate that the president will spend the next few days “quarantined” in the White House, without the possibility of face-to-face campaign events. But with the Republican President it is not known until he surprises himself with the opposite.
