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Certified by docs, Trump hits the ground running on Monday with Orlando rally
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With the White House doctor saying he can resume normal activities, and he
himself "feeling great," Trump is getting ready to resume his election
campaign on Monday after recuperating from an attack of coronavirus.
There will be a rally on Monday night in Orlando, followed by campaigns in
Pennsylvania on Tuesday and Iowa on Wednesday. |
WASHINGTON, Oct 11: President Donald Trump, who was discharged from the military
hospital last Monday cured of coronavirus infection, is fit to resume normal
activities, his doctors said on Saturday. There is no transmission risk to others
as the ten-day isolation period is over, White House physician Sean Conley said.
However, he did not say if the President tested negative for the virus. No details
about his treatment and health are forthcoming.
Even as the doctors certified him fit, Trump is getting ready to resume his
election campaign. Earlier, he delivered a speech to his supporters on the South
Lawn from the Blue Room balcony. “I’m feeling great,” Trump said. He wore a
mask before speaking. Most supporters did wear a mask but they did not maintain
the social distancing norm essential to prevent transmission of covid. Trump
told Fox News Friday night that he had stopped medicines 8 hours ago.
Trump had given the corona test on October 1 after his aide and adviser Hope
Hicks tested positive for covid and developed symptoms. Trump fell ill later
with cold-like conditions and experienced "two episodes of transient drops in
his oxygen saturation" before leaving for the military hospital on Friday evening.
He was given Regeneron's antibody cocktail, corticosteroid dexamethasone and
Gileads' antiviral Remdesivir and returned to White House on Monday.
He will hold a rally on Monday night in Orlando, campaign in Pennsylvania on
Tuesday and Iowa on Wednesday. Three weeks to go for the polls, Trump is trailing
badly behind Democratic candidate Joe Biden in double digits.
Meanwhile, Dr Anthony Fauci, White House's corona task force member and the
Government's top infectious diseases expert, had said on Friday that the event
hosted by the White House on the Rose Garden on September 26 for Amy Coney Barrett's
nomination to the Supreme Court was a superspreader, with the invitees wearing
no masks, and behaving like a crowd.
The White House has since become a breeding ground for coronavirus. About three
dozen staff and others linked to the power house have tested positive for the
virus. Some of them, apart from the President and the First Lady, are: Senior
Advisor Stephen Miller, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Assistant Press Secretaries
Kardine Leavitt and Chad Gilmartin, Advisors Hope Hicks and Nicholas Luna, Trump's
campaign manager Bill Stephen, ex-Advisor Kellyane Conway, Republican National
Commission chairman Ronna McDaniel, ex-New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (since
discharged from hospital), Senators Thom Tillis and Mike Lee.
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