“Tonight (Thursday) we are the first lady and I tested positive for covid-19. We will immediately start the quarantine and convalescence process. We’ll get out of this together! ” said 74-year-old Trump.
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Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020
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Trump’s doctor expects the president to perform his duties with the infection. He also said in a statement that both Trump and Melania were fine.
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“The president and the first lady are doing well at the moment,” said the president’s doctor, Sean Conley. According to him, during the convalescence, the presidential couple plans to stay in the White House. “I assure you that I expect the president to continue his recovery without interruption,” the doctor wrote.
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“The White House medical team and I will be watching them closely. I appreciate the support provided by some of the greatest medical experts and institutions, “he added, without stating who they were and what help they provided. At the same time, Trump belongs to the risk group due to its age and weight.
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Trump and his wife were in quarantine before the infection was confirmed, as one of his counselors, Hope Hicks, tested positive.. However, Hicks will probably quarantine twenty people who have traveled with her recently, the MSNBC server said. Among others were Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and three other members of Trump’s family, White House lawyer Ruda Giuliani and Republican Jim Jordan.
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The source of the infection is not clear
It is not yet clear when Trump and Melania became infected. If Trump became infected with Hicks, it was probably on Monday, when they flew together with the presidential special to the pre-election debate in Cleveland. But it’s a question of when Hicks became infected. If she first developed the infection on Thursday, everyone would probably get infected from someone else, said biology professor Carl Bergstrom. The whole White House team should probably be tested every day.
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Republican President Trump has long faced criticism from Democrats for their approach to the pandemic. According to them, he is lax and frivolous. The US registers over two hundred thousand coronavirus victims. While Trump’s Democratic rival, Joe Biden, has canceled all mass meetings with voters in the upcoming presidential election, Trump has continued the rallies, where tens of thousands of his supporters have gathered without a veil.
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Complications for the campaign
Trump is now in quarantine, which could disrupt his election campaign. Over the next two weeks, he was to visit the key states of Arizona, Florida and Wisconsin, where voters favor Republicans, Democrats.
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Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., Erik Trump’s wife Lara and Trump’s daughters Tiffany and Ivanka were also present at the Cleveland presidential debate.
Foto: Brian Snyder, Reuters
The president has already canceled Friday’s meeting in Florida, where he lags behind Democrat Joe Biden by 2.2 percentage points in polls. According to the current poll, only 45.6 percent of the vote would be there and Biden 47.8 percent. There will only be a press conference on the support of “vulnerable seniors”.
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The US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) recommends remaining in quarantine for 14 days after contact with the infected person and avoiding contact with other people, especially those at risk of covid-19.
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Trump also met Biden on Tuesday night as part of an election debate at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Both actors were without veils, but during the program they did not get significantly closer on stage and there was no handshake. Trump’s relatives also sat in the audience, in addition to his wife Melanie, for example, his daughter Ivanka. Contrary to regulations, during the debate, unlike others, they did not have veils.
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Melania Trump in the audience during the first presidential debate. Although the event took place at the Cleveland Clinic, Trump’s loved ones watched the debate without a veil.
Photo: Julio Cortez, ČTK / AP
The next presidential duel is set to take place on October 15 in Miami, Florida. If Trump had a light course and recovered by then, he could theoretically catch up.
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According to CNN health expert Jonathan Reiner, Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence should also go into isolation because they met with the President. According to The Guardian, it is not yet clear how close they were to contact.
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Neither Pence nor Biden commented on the possible infection. Pence and his wife only said they were praying for the presidential couple.
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