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MELANIA TRUMP SAID that she and the president’s teenage son, Barron, tested positive for the coronavirus shortly after their parents, but had no symptoms.
He made the disclosure in a long note recounting his personal experience with Covid-19, including a “roller coaster” of symptoms that he treated naturally with vitamins and healthy foods.
Trump said he is now negative and hopes to resume his duties soon.
After she and President Donald Trump tested positive earlier this month, the White House said the 14-year-old Barron tested negative.
Barron later tested positive for the virus but had no symptoms, he said yesterday, adding that he has since tested negative again.
The president, speaking at a campaign rally in Iowa, was arrogant about Barron’s infection, saying, “He had it for such a short period of time, I don’t even think he knew he had it.”
“Barron is fine,” Trump added, using his son’s quick recovery as part of his speech to reopen schools.
“It happens. People have it and it goes away. Get the kids back to school. We have to get the kids back to school.”
Trump shared that after she and her husband first received their positive results, “naturally my mind immediately went to our son.”
She said she was relieved when she tested negative at first, but kept thinking about what would happen in the next few days.
“My fear came true when he was tested again and tested positive,” the first lady wrote in a statement posted on social media.
Sounding a bit like the president, the first lady said she was “glad the three of us went through this at the same time so we could take care of each other and spend time together.”
President Trump has called his fight with Covid-19 a “blessing in disguise.”
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Barron Trump (right) with the president and the first lady.
He was hospitalized for three days and was treated with various therapies and drugs, including steroids, supplemental oxygen, and an experimental antibody treatment.
Trump didn’t explain why Barron’s positive diagnosis wasn’t made public earlier, but she has fiercely protected the ninth-grader’s privacy.
Regarding her own tests with the disease, the first lady said she was “fortunate” to have had minimal symptoms, “although they hit me all at once and it seemed to be a roller coaster of symptoms in the days after.”
She described body aches, coughs and headaches and said that she felt extremely tired most of the time.
To treat it, “I chose to take a more natural route in terms of medicine, opting more for vitamins and healthy food,” he said.
Trump acknowledged that his family was “fortunate” to have received “the kind of care that we receive.”
She added, “If you are sick, or if you have a loved one who is sick, I am thinking of you and I will be thinking of you every day.”
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