U.S. President Donald Trump gestures on the Truman Balcony after returning to the White Home from Walter Reed Nationwide Army Medical Heart on Oct. 5, 2020.
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President Donald Trump was briefed within the Oval Workplace on Wednesday after one of many docs treating him for the coronavirus stated the president has been “symptom-free” for greater than 24 hours.
Trump, who had returned to the White Home from Walter Reed Nationwide Army Medical Heart simply two days earlier, was briefed within the Oval Workplace on stimulus talks and Hurricane Delta, a press aide instructed reporters.
NBC Information, citing a senior administration official, reported that chief of employees Mark Meadows and social media aide Dan Scavino had been current within the room with the president in the course of the briefing.
Earlier Wednesday, White Home doctor Dr. Sean Conley stated in a memo that Trump had been “symptom-free” for greater than 24 hours and “fever-free for greater than four days.”
The president has not required supplemental oxygen since leaving the hospital on Monday, Conley stated.
“Of be aware immediately, the President’s labs demonstrated detectable ranges of SARS-CoV-2-IgG antibodies from labs drawn Monday,” the White Home doctor added.
Later within the afternoon, Trump’s account posted an almost five-minute video of the president talking from outdoors the Oval Workplace about his well being and his administration’s response to the pandemic.
He stated he had “pushed” the Meals and Drug Administration to make virus-related approvals, and recommended {that a} vaccine wouldn’t come earlier than the election on account of “politics.”
“I feel we must always have it earlier than the election, however frankly the politics will get concerned, and that is OK, they wish to play their video games, it may be proper after the election,” Trump stated.
Conley’s temporary memo didn’t embody any particular updates on the president’s drug routine. Trump, since testing constructive for the coronavirus final week, has taken quite a few therapies, together with the steroid dexamethasone, the antiviral remedy remdesivir and an antibody cocktail from Regeneron.
The memo did embody remarks from Trump himself. “The President this morning says ‘I really feel nice!'” Conley wrote.
After the briefing, Trump tweeted that he “was simply briefed on Hurricane Delta, and spoke with [Gov. Greg Abbot] of Texas and [Louisiana Gov.] John Bel Edwards.”
Trump was hospitalized Friday night, hours after he introduced on Twitter that he and first girl Melania Trump examined constructive for Covid-19.
He was discharged three days later and flown again to the White Home on Marine One. The president, who’s presumably nonetheless contagious, raised eyebrows and drew criticism when he took off his mask upon returning to the White Home on Monday evening.
Larry Kudlow, Trump’s prime financial advisor, refused to tell CNBC if Trump has been wearing a mask as he returns to work. Kudlow, who appeared on CNBC “Squawk Field” on Wednesday morning, additionally stated Trump had been within the Oval Workplace a day earlier — however different White Home officers shortly contradicted him.
The White Home confirmed later Wednesday, nevertheless, that Trump was being briefed within the Oval Workplace.
Within the wake of Trump’s analysis, a rising quantity of people that work on the White Home have additionally examined constructive for Covid-19. The checklist consists of prime home aide Stephen Miller and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and some of her deputies, in addition to a number of members of the press corps.
Some Republican lawmakers who not too long ago attended an occasion on the White Home South Garden — which defied among the advisable social-distancing tips issued by well being consultants within the Trump administration — have additionally examined constructive.
After getting back from the hospital, Trump revived his energetic Twitter presence. On Tuesday, the president tweeted that he had ordered his aides to cease negotiations with Democrats on a deal for additional coronavirus stimulus money until after the Nov. 3 election. The move baffled Wall Street investors and political pundits alike. He later prodded Capitol Hill to approve extra coronavirus aid in separate payments. On Wednesday, he tweeted or retweeted greater than a dozen occasions as of early afternoon.
