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According to his personal physician, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, tested negative for the corona virus. Rapid tests came back negative on “consecutive days,” Sean Conley said in a statement Monday (local time). He added that in addition to the antigen tests, other laboratory data had also been used to determine that the president was no longer contagious after his corona infection. When Trump first tested negative and how often was unclear.
Trump announced on October 2 that he had been infected with the corona virus. Due to his Covid-19 illness, he was treated for three days in a military hospital. Personal physician Conley had already announced on Saturday that the president was no longer infectious. He did not release information on the test results at this time.
On his first trip to a campaign appearance since he was infected, Trump refrained from wearing a mask on Monday. He was rarely seen in public with mouth and nose protection during the pandemic. His opponents criticized him as a bad example. Not only was Trump infected with Corona, but so were many other White House employees and guests.
Criticism of the immunologist Anthony Fauci
The president of the United States had repeatedly downplayed the corona virus in public. Immediately after being released from the hospital, he had given derogatory messages about the pathogen.
More recently, the American immunologist Anthony Fauci criticized it. Trump’s team incorporated inconsistent quotes from Fauci into their campaign in an election commercial.
The Republican’s campaign team should no longer use a campaign video for which Fauci’s statements were used without his consent and inconsistently, the health expert told CNN on Monday. “I think it’s really regrettable and really disappointing that they did that. It is so clear that I am not a political person. And I have never supported, directly or indirectly, a political candidate.”
A Trump commercial used an interview quote from Fauci that gave the impression that he was saying that in the fight against coronavirus, no one could have done more than Trump. Fauci is director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases and part of the White House coronavirus task force.
Fauci on Monday renewed his criticism that statements in an interview published in March had been “completely” taken out of context. Fauci called it “scandalous” if Trump’s campaign team considers using it for more campaigns. “That could backfire on you.”
In addition, the immunologist was critical of the events of the electoral campaign, of which Trump wants to carry out four this week alone. “We know this creates problems,” Fauci said, referring to the gathering of many people without a mask. In view of the rapidly increasing number of infections in many parts of the US, this is even more problematic.
Trump is running for reelection on November 3. In the United States of about 330 million people, there are about 7.8 million confirmed infections with the pathogen Sars-CoV-2. Around 215,000 people died after being infected.
