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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, left the military hospital where for three days he had been receiving an unprecedented level of care for Covid-19.
Wearing a mask and walking cautiously, Trump left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in search of a van that took him to Marine One for the short helicopter flight back to the White House.
Trump, who remains contagious, was expected to continue to recover from the White House, where he will be seen 24/7 by a team of doctors and nurses.
Still, he indicated that he will not stay out of the campaign for long, tweeting “We will be back to the campaign soon !!!”
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His return comes as the White House is still learning the scale of the outbreak that has sickened more than a dozen close contacts of the president in the past week.
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US President Donald Trump is leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to return to the White House after receiving treatments for Covid-19.
The virus has killed nearly 210,000 Americans.
Trump has been treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center since Friday afternoon.
Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive for the coronavirus Monday morning.
However, Trump’s message alarmed infectious disease experts and suggested that the president’s own illness had not caused him to reconsider his often arrogant attitude toward the disease.
“We have to be realistic on this: Covid-19 is a total threat to the American population,” said Dr. David Nace of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, an expert on infections in older adults.
“Most of the people are not as lucky as the president,” with an internal medical unit and access to experimental treatments, Nace added.
“It’s an inconceivable message,” agreed Dr. Sadiya Khan of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “I would dare to say that it can precipitate or worsen the spread.”
Both Nace and Khan expressed fear that Trump is not left isolated in the White House and that he has not learned his lesson about wearing a mask.
“We know you hate the mask, we know you hate being restricted, we know it’s unpredictable,” Nace said. “The rest of the American people must be held accountable to a 10-day period of isolation.”
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US President Donald Trump walks with Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany to board Marine One and depart from the South Lawn of the White House last month.
There were also lingering questions about the possible long-term effects for the president, and even when he first contracted the virus.
There was also a political pushback to Trump’s attitude toward the virus.
Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas told the Houston Chronicle editorial board that Trump had “let his guard down” in his effort to show that the country was moving beyond the virus and had created “confusion” about how to stay safe.
Conley said that because of Trump’s unusual level of treatment so soon after the discovery of his illness, he was in “uncharted territory.” But the doctor was also optimistic in an afternoon briefing, saying the president could resume his normal schedule once “there is no evidence of live virus still present.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people with mild to moderate symptoms of Covid-19 can be contagious to the largest number of people, and should be isolated for at least 10 days.
