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Following his Covid 19 illness, US President Donald Trump is no longer contagious, according to his personal physician. The latest coronavirus test has shown according to “currently recognized standards” that the president “no longer poses a risk of transmission to others,” physician Sean Conley said Saturday night (local time) in a letter distributed by the White House.
Conley referred to Trump’s latest test on Saturday morning. Trump, who is running for a second term on Nov.3, has already planned major campaign appearances starting Monday.
Trump can now, about ten days after the first symptoms appear, end his voluntary quarantine according to the criteria of the CDC’s health authority, the doctor said. Tests over the course of his illness had shown a steadily decreasing concentration of virus, Conley continued. It will continue to monitor Trump, who returns to “his active schedule.”
Trump has been fever-free for “more than 24 hours” and “all symptoms” have “improved,” the doctor wrote.
However, he did not provide any information on what symptoms were still detectable in Trump and to what extent. Also, Conley never explicitly wrote that Trump’s latest crown test was negative. Therefore, it seemed possible that the most recent test was still positive due to a low virus concentration.
When could Trump have been infected? Ambiguities remain
Trump, 74, said he had tested positive for the corona virus on October 1. However, the White House never announced when Trump’s regular crown tests were last negative. Trump fell ill with Covid-19 and was therefore treated for three days in a military hospital starting on October 2. There the doctors gave him the antiviral drug remdesivir, anti-inflammatory drugs and an experimental antibody cocktail, among other things. According to many experts, the aggressive treatment – contrary to the White House representation – suggested a more serious illness.
After a stay at the clinic: In the first public appearance on Saturday, Trump says: “I feel great”
Trump made a longer television appearance for the first time on Friday and briefly reappeared in public at the White House on Saturday. Trump spoke from a White House balcony in front of several hundred supporters who had gathered on the site’s south lawn. They mostly wore masks, but they were relatively crowded. “I feel great,” Trump said to cheers from supporters. The Republican strongly warned of an electoral victory for his Democratic challenger Joe Biden. His speech was unusually short, with less than 20 minutes: on such occasions, Trump usually speaks for more than an hour.
Biden’s program was “socialist” or even “communist” and would plunge the country into crisis, Trump claimed. The Democrat cannot rule the country, Trump said. In polls, however, the president is behind Biden, 77, a former senator and former vice president, a good three weeks before the election.
Trump’s campaign team has announced a major appearance in the president’s campaign in the constituencies of Florida, Pennsylvania and Iowa for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Trump also promised again at the White House appearance that the pandemic would soon end. “She will go away and the vaccines will help and the resources used to treat her will help a lot,” Trump said. The “China virus” will be “defeated once and for all,” he promised. However, many experts consider Trump’s forecasts for the pandemic to be too optimistic and accuse him of failure.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, about 7.7 million people have been infected with the coronavirus in the country of 330 million people, and 214,000 people have died.
In Washington DC, there is a ban on gathering more than 50 people, but since the White House and its facilities are federal territory, there is an exception. According to the White House, 2,000 people were invited to the election campaign. The demonstration was declared a “peaceful protest for law and order.”
