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President Donald Trump will spend “a few days” in a military hospital after contracting Covid-19, the White House said.
The president will depart the White House by helicopter later Friday for the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a White House official said.
An update from the president @realDonaldTrumpdoctor of: pic.twitter.com/cTsXO4Df6b
– Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) October 2, 2020
The official said the visit was precautionary and that President Trump would work from the hospital’s presidential suite, which is equipped to allow him to continue his official duties.
“President Trump is in a good mood, has mild symptoms and has been working all day,” said press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
“As a precaution and on the recommendation of his physician and medical experts, the president will work from the presidential offices in Walter Reed for the next few days.”
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020
Earlier on Friday, the White House said the White House doctor had injected President Trump with a cocktail of experimental antibodies.
Just a month before the election, President Trump’s revelation that he was positive for the virus came in a tweet around 1 a.m. after he returned from an afternoon political fundraiser.
He had gone ahead, saying nothing to the crowd, even though he knew he had been exposed to an aide with the disease that has infected millions in the United States and killed more than a million people worldwide.
First lady Melania Trump also tested positive, the president said, and several others in the White House have as well, raising concerns that the White House or even President Trump himself may have further spread the virus.
President Trump has spent much of the year downplaying the threat of the virus, rarely wearing a protective mask and urging states and cities to “reopen” and reduce or eliminate closure rules.
The president’s doctor said in a memo on Friday night that he received a dose of an experimental antibody cocktail from Regeneron that is in clinical trials.
Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley said President Trump “remains fatigued but in good spirits” and that a team of experts was evaluating both the president and the first lady regarding next steps.
The 50-year-old first lady has a “mild cough and headache,” Dr. Conley reported, and the rest of the first family, including the Trumps’ son Barron, who lives in the White House, gave negative.
Both Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris tested negative, according to their campaign.
Vice President Mike Pence tested negative for the virus on Friday morning and “remains in good health,” his spokesman said.
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