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Eight days after the announcement of the positive swab, the president Donald trump“It is no longer considered contagious”: this was said Saturday by White House physician Sean P. Conley. And that is. Conley, who shared medical information “with the patient’s permission,” didn’t add much else; Not even, and this is the most glaring flaw, if there is a negative swab from the president (probably not). The latest medical news came from Conley on Thursday, Oct. 8: The president will be back in public, he said, on Saturday.. And so it was: yesterday the first public appearance since he returned from the White House, in front of an audience of supporters all without masks (and the New York Times reveals that in this first appearance he had thought of wearing a superman t-shirt under the t-shirt, which would then break; idea then filed). “I feel great,” he said. But is it legitimate to doubt it?
The negative swab
Is there, for example, a negative swab made by the president? The words chosen by his physician Sean P. Conley suggest not. “I am pleased to inform you,” he wrote, “that it is not only the president who meets the diagnostic criteria necessary to safely terminate isolation. But this morning’s molecular PCR test also shows that by current standards, you’re no longer considered to be at risk of passing it on to other people. Now on the 10th day from the first symptoms, after more than 24 hours of fainting, with all symptoms in remission, the tests we did show that there is no evidence of an actively reproducing virus. However, Conley does not discuss negative swabs or is available to answer questions from the press. And the risk class Donald Trump refers to is one of the highest: overweight, men, over 65.
Is it still contagious?
The possibility of contagion: in reality, there is no test to evaluate it on a case-by-case basis. And several doctors interviewed by the Associated Press agency agree: it is now impossible to decree whether Trump is contagious or not. According to the current guidelines in the United States, issued by the Center for Disease Prevention and Control, a Covid-19 patient (which is, remember, the disease caused by the new coronavirus) is no longer contagious 10 days after the appearance of the first symptoms. Donald Trump announced the positive result of the swab on October 2: but when did he show the first symptoms of Covid?
The first symptoms: when?
This is just one of several areas on which there has been little transparency from White House doctors. For example, the date of the last negative swab was not disclosed.: This leaves open the possibility that, for example, he was already positive on the Cleveland debate stage he shared with Joe Biden on September 29. OR at both fundraisers he attended again on October 1When he knew, at least, that his close associate Hope Hicks had been infected. In any case, it is not clear when he first manifested symptoms. On October 1, some of his collaborators revealed to the press, he complained of “headache” and “fatigue.”
Risks to staff
Are the staff around you at higher risk than usual? After last Sunday’s SUV ride, when despite the complete symptoms he wanted to greet his followers from a car driven by his driver And along with two intelligence agents, many think that protecting the health of their personnel is not a priority for Trump. On October 5, he returned to the White House and said that he “had returned to work”; a memo published the next day and published by the BBC shows that in the famous west wing of the building and in the residence of the president there are access restrictions, interpersonal distance of at least two meters, obligation to wear masks, gloves and protective glasses.
Melania’s condition
How are you finally Melania? Younger than him, as Trump himself did not stop pointing out in his video speech last Monday; a normal-weight woman with a less hectic life, Melania appears to be less at risk, at least on paper. Unlike her husband’s, her Twitter account is poorly communicated.. On October 5 he communicated “I’m fine and I’m staying at home”and a little more. His symptoms were immediately, at least according to official communications, lighter than The Donald’s and never required hospitalization.
October 11, 2020 (change October 11, 2020 | 13:18)
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