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WASHINGTON (REUTERS, BLOOMBERG) – US President Donald Trump is “extremely well” and reporting no symptoms of Covid-19, a day after returning to the White House after being hospitalized with the highly contagious disease, he said. his doctor in a statement Tuesday (Oct. 6).
Sean Conley, a Navy commander, said a team of doctors met with the president Tuesday morning.
“He had a quiet first night at home and today he is reporting no symptoms. Vital signs and physical examination remain stable, with an ambulatory oxygen saturation level of 95-97 percent,” he said in a statement released by the White House.
“In general, he continues to do extremely well.”
According to people familiar with the matter, the restless Trump wants to return to the Oval Office, but some of the president’s aides don’t want him to leave the White House residence just yet.
However, they are not sure how long it will remain isolated, the people said.
He has not yet gone to the West Wing and it is unclear if he will.
Trump is also considering a televised address to the nation, another person said.
Trump and his campaign have tried to portray his return from the hospital as a triumphant presidential moment just weeks before Election Day, but he has lagged far behind rival Joe Biden in both public opinion polls and fundraising. .
A CNN poll conducted after Trump’s chaotic first debate with Biden, released Tuesday, found the president trailing the former vice president by 16 points nationally.
Meanwhile, more coronavirus infections emerged in the White House. One of the president’s military aides, Jayna McCarron, tested positive, as did one of the president’s valets, who traveled with Trump last week, according to people familiar with the matter.
The duties of Trump’s five military aides, one from each branch of the service, include carrying the nuclear “soccer ball,” the system the president would use to initiate a nuclear weapons attack. The valets also come from the ranks of the army.
Trump discussed further economic relief from the coronavirus on Tuesday in a conference call with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, according to a person familiar with the case.
But then he announced that he would suspend talks until after the election, accusing Democrats of failing to negotiate in good faith.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed a $ 2.2 trillion (S $ 3 trillion) bill through her chamber last week with only Democratic votes. The White House has proposed a $ 1.6 trillion package.
On Monday, Trump posted a video on Twitter imploring Americans not to let the coronavirus “dominate” their lives, based on his personal experience receiving the best medical care available. On Tuesday morning, he mistakenly compared the virus again to seasonal flu, a disease epidemiologists consider far less dangerous.
The coronavirus has killed more than 210,000 Americans since February. Trump’s consideration of a televised speech was previously reported by The New York Times.
Top White House physician Sean Conley had said Trump will continue to recover in isolation in the White House until he is no longer contagious, but the president has made it clear that he is eager to get back into his reelection campaign.
“FEEL GOOD!” Trump said on Twitter, after a previous post comparing the new coronavirus to seasonal flu, a comparison for which the president was criticized earlier this year, before the outbreak in the United States became the worst in the year. world.
“Many people each year, sometimes more than 100,000, and despite the vaccine, die from the flu,” Trump said. “Are we going to close our country? No, we have learned to live with it, just as we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations, much less lethal !!!”
The United States has not lost 100,000 people to the flu in a single season in more than a decade, according to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And while direct comparisons are difficult due to differences in the count of deaths from diseases, there is a consensus among epidemiologists that the coronavirus is far more dangerous than common strains of flu.
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