Kamala Harris, also announced she tested negative. (Both were maskless.) Biden’s running mate, California Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president, announced Friday that he tested negative for the coronavirus, after sparring in close proximity to Trump in the first presidential debate this week shortly before the president announced his diagnosis. The dueling messages led Trump himself to issue a Twitter missive downplaying worries about his health on Saturday afternoon: “Doctors, Nurses and ALL at the GREAT Walter Reed Medical Center, and others from likewise incredible institutions who have joined them, are AMAZING!!!” The president insisted he was “feeling well” and began firing off more tweets, urging for Congress to pass a stalled coronavirus stimulus measure. But he’s still considered to be at a high risk, given his advanced age and obesity. Trump has been given an experimental antibody treatment that is still undergoing clinical trials, and the vast majority of people with COVID-19 recover overall fatality rates from the virus are just shy of 3 percent of confirmed cases in the United States.
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We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.” (Later reports suggested the anonymous source was White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.)
But then immediately following the briefing, White House pool reporters released the following statement from “a source familiar with the president’s health”: “The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. In a briefing to reporters on Saturday, White House physician Sean Conley said Trump was “doing very well” and improving from a mild cough and fatigue. How serious is the president’s condition?Īs of Saturday afternoon, there are contradictory messages coming out of the White House, almost simultaneously. To help answer those questions, Foreign Policy took a look at Trump’s prospects for recovery, the potential paths of presidential succession, and what it means less than a month before a hotly contested election. officials, allies, and adversaries about the 74-year-old president’s condition, and what might happen if Trump is rendered incapable of serving. The scant reports coming out of Walter Reed Medical Center, where Trump was admitted Friday for treatment, are deepening questions among U.S. commander in chief was given oxygen before being hospitalized, with anonymous sources close to the White House warning that Trump has entered a critical stage in his treatment. President Donald Trump’s battle against the coronavirus appeared to intensify today as reports emerged that the U.S.
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