U.S. President Trump waved from the back of a car outside Walters Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on October 4, 2020.
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LONDON – President Donald Trump entered a briefcar outside Walter Reed Hospital in a motorcar on Sunday to welcome cheerful supporters, a move doctors condemned for clearly ignoring precautions designed to spread the coronavirus.
Trump, 74, has released a series of videos over the weekend to reassure voters that Trump is recovering from a positive test for Covid-19.
“It’s been a very interesting journey. I’ve learned a lot about Kovid,” Trump said in a video posted via Twitter on Sunday. The president also suggested that they “pay a little surprise to some of the great patriots we’ve taken to the streets.”
Shortly afterwards, President Luther drove through the perimeter of Reed National Medical Center in a presidential car, seeing Trump wearing a face through an SUV window and waving to supporters.
Trump has repeatedly denied the threat of an epidemic, just as he criticized Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for wearing a protective mask last week, even though the virus has infected millions and killed more than 200,000 Americans.
“During that completely unnecessary presidential ‘drive-by’, everyone in the vehicle will now have to be isolated for 14 days. They could get sick. They could die. For political theater,” said Dr. James Phillips, a doctor of emergency medicine at George W. Washington University And the attending physician at Verter Reed Hospital said via Twitter on Sunday.
He said Trump ordered his life to be put in danger for the theater. This is madness.
In another tweet, Phillips added that the risk of a Covid-1 transmission transmission inside the car “comes out of medical procedures as high as it is medical,” stating that the presidential SUV was not only bullet proof, but hermetically sealed against chemical attack.
“Irresponsibility is surprising. My thoughts are with the Secret Service being forced to play,” Phillips said.
In response to the criticism, White House spokesman Jude Deere told the Associated Press that Trump’s trip outside the hospital was cleared by a medical team.
Deere added that precautions were taken, including the use of personal protective equipment to protect the president, White House officials and Secret Service agents.
The president’s doctors said Trump’s health was improving, with the White House also talking about a possible return on Monday.
However, the White House medical team has also reported a sudden drop in the president’s blood oxygen level twice in recent days, and the recommended steroid treatment for severe Covid-19 cases is underway.
On October 4, 2020, supporters of the U.S. president rallied outside the Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, holding the U.S. and Trump flags 2020, where the president is being treated at Covid-19. (Photo by Alex Edelman / AFP) (Photo by)
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First lady Melania Trump, who has also tested positive for coronavirus, will not let the White House see her husband in the hospital, NBC News quoted a White House official as saying Monday.
The official said the Secret Service agents who would take her to Worcester Reed Hospital and the medical staff who would take her to the president would stop at the First Lady’s residence to avoid being exposed.
‘Grave danger’
“I’m not worried about the fun ride in terms of his own health. If he was really stable today, which, by all accounts, was exactly his oxygen level, then the fact that he’s out and about 10 minutes head of the Department of Medicine at the University of California. , Robert Watcher told CNBC’s “Squawk Europe x Europe” on Monday.
“What worries me is that he’s sitting in a hermetically sealed Secret Service van … plus, I think, he’s eight or nine Secret Service agents when he’s actively infected. Secret service agents vow to protect him. “But they don’t. He pledges to be safe from her and I think he’s putting them in unnecessary danger,” said Vachcher.
On Sunday, Jonathan Rainer, a professor of medicine and surgery at George and Washington Washington University School of Medicine and Health Services, said his secret service was being seriously endangered by a pleasure ride outside Verter Reed.
“In the hospital when we go into close contact with a covid patient we wear full PPE: robe, gloves, N95, eye protection, hat. This is the height of irresponsibility,” Rainer said.
For Michael Baker, an epidemiologist at the University of Otago in Wellington, New Zealand, Trump’s trip “looks reckless in both medical and public health terms,” he told CNBC. Said by email. “A patient who is sick enough to be hospitalized and treated with strong drugs such as dexamethasone should not leave the hospital for an unnecessary drive before their discharge.”
White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said over the weekend that Trump’s medical team has begun treating the president with dexamethasone, a steroid that promises to be for critically ill patients but can harm people with less severe cases of Covid-19.
“Traveling in a car with many staff members, even in isolation, carries the risk of infecting other open passengers. There is no clear jus chit for this measure,” Baker said.
To date, the U.S. Of coronavirus in.4. More than a million cases have been reported, with 209,725 related deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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