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Bill Stepien was diagnosed Friday night and suffered from what a senior crusade official described as “mild flu-like symptoms. ” People close to the scene said Stepien, 42, planned to self-quarantine until she recovered.
Crusade Deputy Director Justin Clark is expected to oversee Trump’s team headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, while Stepien works remotely, advisers are under pressure to maintain control of the crusade. contracted the coronavirus: RNC President Ronna McDaniel announced the previous Friday that she too was infected. . .
Stepien traveled to and from Cleveland for Tuesday’s presidential debate and joined Trump and Hicks aboard Air Force One. The crusade manager was also with the president at the White House on Monday.
When I arrived at the White House, a fitness professional took me to an exam room to have a nasal swab for a quick COVID-19 test, and then they took me to a room with others, all absolutely masked, until they informed us that they had all tested negative and said it was to take off our masks. Then they took us to the rose garden, where he was sitting with other people who had also just been tested and who got negative results.
The unmasked mantra is also applied inside. Cabinet members, senators, members of Barrett’s circle of relatives and others met safely at well-crowded interior receptions in the White House diplomatic room and closet room.
[Abbott ID Now Immediate Verification] has several qualities in its favor: it is portable, requires no professional technicians to operate and produces effects in 15 minutes. Used to evaluate a user with symptoms, control can temporarily and smoothly diagnose Covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. But in other people who are inflamed but have no symptoms yet, verification is much less accurate, missing up to one in 3 cases.
In May, after many reports of check disorders, the FDA warned that those who tested negative deserve to verify this result with a lab checkup. However, the Trump administration has used the check to evaluate others without symptoms, allowing anyone to dial negative to dispense with the mask during official meetings and procedures.
Biden “shouldn’t replace anything,” said former South Carolina governor Jim Hodges. “The strategy I had, which is the election of COVID and the control of COVID by the president, has worked very well and, on the contrary, today’s occasions show that there will be more attention to COVID in the coming weeks. “No more,” predicted a handful of Biden supporters, “there’s no chance that the president will divert attention from the ongoing case: a pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans, and, they say, Trump can’t even gain the belief of ephemeral merit by mocking Biden for being too careful, with his small crusade opportunities and diligent masking.
However, Biden’s side has already been careful to moderate his tone, asking prosecutors and assistants to act lightly in their initial public observation of the president’s illness. Especially since biden’s appeal component to the electorate revolves around his promise to return to quieter days, especially after Trump brought the debate into chaos. Therefore, he deserves to set a proper tone and be aware of the dangers of fitness during his crusade,” said a Democratic state official on the battlefield. “But our total democracy is at stake. I don’t think he’s cutting everything. Just be cautious with the tone you give. “
The president has a low fever, nasal congestion and cough, according to two others close to Trump. He did not aim to transfer his authority to Vice President Mike Pence, according to a White House spokesman, Judd Deere. The president is in charge, ” he said.
Getting accurate data on the fitness of the President of the United States has been a problem, either because presidents and their advisers were unwilling to tell anyone that the American leader might be simply ill, and because the hounds around them occasionally kept quiet. . . .
[T] even now, we know that we know very little about Trump’s health. Remember, for example, Trump’s 2015 letter saying that if Trump were elected, he would be “the healthiest user ever elected to the presidency. “which turned out to be dictated, word for word, through Trump himself or, more worryingly, Trump’s unforeseen and still inexplicable to Walter Reed Hospital about a year ago.
But beyond presidential physical fitness disorders, adding Trump’s cover-up about his own prestige, there were also long-term disorders that didn’t necessarily want to be resolved immediately.
Now, however, we have a real-time crisis: we are well aware that Trump has a disease that is fatal to older, obese men, but we have no explanation why we accept as true everything the White House says about his health. . . What if Trump is really incapacitated or worse, who will we accept as true to transmit this information?
As a precaution, and on the advice of his physician and medical experts, the president will run from Walter Reed’s presidential offices over the next few days.
Hospitals cannot do much to cure disease; Medications like re-ivir offer only moderate relief in recovery time. What the medications can do is mitigate the effects of headaches like pneumonia, septic shock, cardiac arrhythmias, and secondary infections, while the immune formula fights the virus.
Take, for example, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who hit COVID-19 on 27 March. Like Trump, he started with a persistent cough and fever. Ten days later, Johnson was hospitalized and two days later transferred to intensive care. He spent seven nights in the hospital, followed by two weeks of recovery at home, out of work. If Trump follows a similar trajectory, he will be back on November 2.
But if your symptoms are severe, you may be recovering for months, and for every thousand people over the age of 70 who contract COVID-19, 116 will die.
Trump was expected to participate in a call to the convention, perhaps ironically, about “COVID-19 for vulnerable seniors,” earlier this afternoon, but Vice President Mike Pence gave the impression instead, saying of the first couple, “They” or this time and he will stay in the White House.
The longer Trump stays out of sight, the fewer pennies will believe his word. The president has become such a constant presence in American life, tweeting through each and every controversy, at each and every hour, and never without the possibility of doing so. regret — that the approximately [16] hours of silence (to date) seem monumental . . .
Even when Trump is in his private rooms, he tends to tweet all the time and rarely sleeps much. Many reports have said he liked to be in bed watching TV and tweeting. If the president is bedridly prostrate, he doesn’t use it for his general pastime.
“You know, it’s very complicated, when you’re with soldiers, when you’re with airmen, when you’re with Marines, and I’m with — and with the police,” Trump said. with them. And when they come here, it’s very hard to say, stay behind, stay behind. It’s a delicate situation. “
Trump then turned to his own check and to Hicks. “So I just passed a check and let’s see what happens. I mean, who knows? But you know her very well. She’s fantastic. And he did a wonderful job. “
And then he came back here with the so-called spreaders.
“But it’s very, very complicated when you’re with the army or . . . the forces of order, and they come to you, they need to hug and kiss you, because we have done an intelligent task for them. “Said Trump. ” And you come up and things happen. “
A developing coronavirus outbreak in the White House has left members of the media struggling to know if they too are infected.
Three White House reporters tested positive on Friday, according to a series of memos from the White House Correspondents’ Association. A White House member who sits in the West Wing “lower press” domain also won a positive result shown Friday morning. .
Journalists and spokespersons for the White House paint in combination in tight spaces, assembling the definition of close contact. White House reporters are now largely involved in who has been denounced.
In an initial clinical trial of 275 patients with Covid-19, those who won Regeneron’s experimental remedy had lower degrees of virus in the bloodstream seven days later compared to patients who won a placebo, the company said in a statement . . .
Regeneron’s remedy, which comprises an aggregate of two very potent antibodies opposed to the coronavirus complex protein, “rapidly lowered viral load and related symptoms in inflamed Covid-19 patients,” said George D. Yancopoulos, chief scientific officer of Regeneron, in the press. release. “The greatest advantages obtained from the remedy were in patients who had not developed their own effective immune response.
Trump’s inability to perform rallies, even for a short period of time, will hinder a crusade that has been explained through his gigantic stand-up in person, including the pandemic. Trump’s positive check will accentuate the review of next week’s vice presidential debate.
Commission officials in the presidential debates declined to comment on what the president’s diagnosis means for the timing and format of the long-term forums. The time of the 3 presidential debates scheduled for October 15 in Miami . . .
It’s a dangerous way to end the crusade for a candidate who’s already at the polls. Visually imaginable, the positive check publicly undermines much of Trump’s rhetoric about the virus, from his religion in hydroxychloroquine to his arrogant statements about a vaccine and his rejection of Covid-19 as a disease that “affects virtually no one. “
“People are like, “What now what does this mean for what we’re looking to do here with 32 days to go?”, said a senior trump crusader. ” I don’t mean he surprised us because we knew the risks. [Trump] sought to crusade and be with the people, so we adapted the crusade to the president’s wishes. Adjust our plans. “
“It’s hard to believe that this won’t end his hopes of re-election,” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican consultant, noting Stutzman’s “obvious failure to stick to precautions. “Trump.
Some Merit Republicans have expressed hope that Trump will push him to follow the incendiary rhetoric that has alienated many voters and make the election a referendum on his behavior.
For some time now, commentators have been discussing what the October marvel would look like. It was assumed that an autumn tragedy would involve the president by defying the legitimacy of the election, and has done so several times. and exaggerated stories on mailing ballots, all in an obvious effort to sow confusion and question a contest that turns out to be losing. But now that the wonder of October is here, and that implies something no less alarming: the suitability of the president and that of his wife and senior advisers, and what all this will mean for the U. S. government, a country that has been in multiple crises for so many months.
They are all prominent Republicans and members of Trump’s inner circle who attended SCOTUS’s nomination for Amy Coney Barrett on Saturday and have now tested positive for COVID-19. Given that the virus can hatch up to two weeks prior to testing, it is conceivable that a number of them would have possibly been in poor health during the event, even those that have tested negative so far. The virus may have spread there as well, making Barrett’s appointment the conceivable site of a coronavirus cluster, with huge implications.
That’s why re-watching the press images of the rite in the White House Rose Garden is incredible, given the way participants were noticed violating almost all pandemic protocols: they shaken hands, hugged, and many weren’t dressed in masks. documented close to several other notable people on the day. In the video below, he is seen hugging others; In some other photo of the day, he posed with Barrett for a photo a few yards from her, inside, without a mask. Barrett herself, who probably posed the same way with other participants, was on the occasion with her husband and seven children Everyone is definitely quarantined now, in case they become infected.
Dr. Barry Dixon, an extensive care physician at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, said Trump’s threat would increase if he developed pneumonia, which is related to a maximum Covid-19 mortality rate, especially in patients over the age of 65 and those with the disease. or cardiovascular diseases that affect the blood vessels of the brain.
“He has a much greater threat of dying if he develops this severe pneumonia,” Dixon said. “There are other points of threat and comorability, for example, if you are a heavy smoker, have diabetes, or have a central illness. Trump, as we know him, is his age and the fact that he is overweight, and those would be the main points of threat. “
Dixon said the initial mild symptoms were not an indicator that someone would avoid a more serious illness and said it was around the week when other people seemed or declined rapidly.
[Doctors treating patients with the disease] recommend that other people of the president’s age (he is 74 years old) who expand Covid-19 have more sophisticated symptoms at first that can lead to pneumonia and serious illnesses. Covid’s elderly patients have minimal intellectual acuity or periods of slight confusion, which would be a disconcerting turn of events, if it happened to a acting president.
It is a disease that can and occasionally does, with many others with few or no symptoms and others progressing to prolonged and debilitating episodes that, in some cases, can lead to death. It’s also a disease that can take time: other people who seem to be recovering may get worse at a time when, with other respiratory infections like the flu or cold, one might be waiting for a user to start recovering.
The critical time to know that Trump will remain in the old organization or progress to a more serious illness is a window of about 8 to 12 days after the onset of symptoms, according to experts.
“Our popular protocol is made up of CDC BEST practices and recommendations,” said a White House official in Axios. “Facial coverings are recommended but not mandatory. There are hand disinfection stations that are complex, common for hand washing and intelligent hygiene. highly advised and social distance is encouraged. So I don’t expect those things to change. »
[I] it is immensely to foresee an orderly (and, at most hypothetical, temporary) force movement to the vice president as interim president if the incompetent POTUS is cooperative. the vice president will take office after consulting with “any other framework that Congress can legally provide,” however, Congress has not provided any address to date.
President Trump’s scenario is even more extraordinary, as he is also the Republican nominee for a moment in a 32-day election. If he died or became incapacitated, could he simply be repositioned as a party candidate?
The short answer is: not really. Ballots have already been published in the maximum states, and in some spaces other people are already voting.
The concept that Trump’s disease will damage his political perspective is that the public will see a poorly ill-health previewer in a more pleasant way; After all, in the other aspect of the puddle, Boris Johnson will enjoy an increase in popularity as he battled a serious one. case. COVID.
But this reasoning is wrong in two respects. First, and more fundamentally, this is not really the case that the British Conservative Prime Minister has seen a sharp increase in polls of his illness . . .
Second, public opinion of Donald Trump as a user is almost fixed. The president’s unfavorable score lately stands at 54% in the RealClearPolitics average, and has rarely been more than two points above or below that figure in the last 4 years. a small but giant number of Americans who don’t know if they’ll vote for Trump, but the number of other people who aren’t sure if they like it is almost actually declining
TRUMP has received COVID19 despite the common use of immediate testing. Does this mean that common immediate testing has failed? To prevent epidemics, we want to prevent spread. Frequent testing worked! Now Trump is not spreading to others, the transmission chain is cut off. It’s public health.
Tests are not prophylactic. They cannot prevent the candidate from becoming infected, but they can be used to prevent the tester from spreading. The purpose is to cut enough transmission for R