Trump planting seeds of doubt in legitimacy of election: Biden
US President Donald Trump has begun planting seeds of doubt in the legitimacy of the November 3 elections as he is aware of his defeat, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has said, a day after the chaotic presidential debate. "In terms of election legitimacy, he made it clear that he didn't think this was going to be--if he lost, it wouldn't be a legitimate election. Already began to plant seeds of doubt in the legitimacy of this election. I don't know any president that's ever done that before," Biden told reporters in Ohio.
Biden slammed Trump for not condemning the white supremacist. "His dog whistles to white supremacy, when asked whether would he condemn white supremacy, he said--he didn't say a word. And then when I said, well, how about the Proud Boys, which is a white supremacist group? He said, well, I just told them to stand down and stand ready. Stand down and stand ready, based on the outcome of the election?" Biden said.
Democrat Joe Biden is expanding his ad buys into every corner of Ohio as early voting begins Tuesday, signaling his campaign's growing hopes that a state Donald Trump won easily four years ago may be within the former vice president's grasp.
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The new spots will air on radio in rural, traditionally Republican areas of the state, the campaign told The Associated Press, as well as on TV in Dayton. That adds to television advertising already announced in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati and on Black radio stations.
The campaign declined to give specifics on how much the Ohio ad blitz is costing. It's part of Biden's USD 280 million general election ad reservation.
Before he left the Walter Reed Medical Centre in Washington, President Donald Trump tweeted: "Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!" Wearing a white surgical mask, Trump gave reporters a thumbs-up as he left the hospital to return to the White House.
The Vice-Presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris will take place on Wednesday morning (IST) in the Salt Lake City of Utah. This will be for the first time in American history an person of Indian origin is taking part in the vice presidential debate. According to PTI, political analysts believe Harris, 55, will easily prevail over Pence, 61.
President Donald Trump has returned to the White House, where he will recover from Covid-19. This has, according to a report in the Associated Press, heightened the anxiety levels of journalists assigned to follow the President. Three journalists have already tested positive for Covid-19, apart from press secretary Kayleigh McEnany who has also contracted the disease. Read the AP report here
President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday after a three-night hospital stay for treatment for COVID-19, facing a staff hit by a wave of infections and a campaign further shadowed by the pandemic four weeks before Election Day. Read More
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Monday that she has tested positive for COVID-19.
McEnany has become the highest-ranking White House official to be tested positive for COVID-19 after President Donald Trump and the first lady tested positive for the deadly virus that has so far killed more than 200,000 Americans this year.
“After testing negative consistently, including every day since Thursday, I tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday morning while experiencing no symptoms,” McEnany said in a statement posted on Twitter. READ MORE
President Donald Trump was hoping for a Monday discharge from the military hospital where he is being treated for COVID-19, a day after he briefly ventured out while contagious to salute cheering supporters by motorcade in a move that disregarded precautions meant to contain the deadly virus that has killed more than 209,000 Americans.
White House officials said Trump was anxious to be released after three nights at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where doctors revealed on Sunday that his blood oxygen level dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that they gave him a steroid typically only recommended for the very sick. Still, the doctors said Trump’s health is improving and volunteered that he could be discharged as early as Monday to continue the remainder of his treatment at the White House.
“This is an important day as the president continues to improve and is ready to get back to a normal work schedule,” White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told Fox News on Monday. He said the determination on whether Trump would leave the hospital won’t be made until later in the day after the president is evaluated by his medical team, but that Trump was “optimistic” he could be released Monday. (AP)
An American president is an important person. And so is his health. Hence, when President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he and the country’s first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for Covid-19 (which has killed over 2,00,000 people in the United States alone), the rise in concerns about the president’s health and his ability to perform duty was natural. And behind those concerns lies an uncomfortable long history of presidents being dishonest, secretive and deceptive about their health. In some cases, the truth was hidden for many decades. READ MORE
After last week’s chaotic presidential debate, former Vice President and Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s national lead over President Donald Trump increased to 14 percentage points, his highest since he entered the race, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released on Sunday.
Biden now has the backing of 53 per cent of those surveyed, while 39 per cent backed Trump. The poll shows a 6-point jump for Biden from the WSJ poll conducted on September 20. Biden’s biggest lead in the poll previously was in July at 11 points.
No rules about a presidential candidate’s replacement are mentioned in the US Constitution. This is decided by the candidate’s party itself. Therefore, if Trump has to withdraw, it will be up to the Republican party to decide who replaces him.
The Republican Party’s rules empower the Republican National Committee, which comprises 168 members who are senior officials from each state, to decide who will be the presidential candidate if Trump has to withdraw. There are two ways the RNC can choose a replacement: by a simple majority vote, or by reconvening the party convention — which looks unlikely now with the election less than a month away. These rules are applicable in case of a presidential or a vice presidential candidate’s withdrawal or death. (Read our explainer here)
The US elections are only 29 days away, and news of US President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis on Friday has thrown the elections into a tailspin. If this wasn’t enough to plunge the process into uncertainty, he was later admitted to the Walter Reed Hospital that was followed by hours of no clear update on the president’s condition from the White House.
With no transparency, US news organizations speculated that the 74-year-old president who suffers from pre-existing medical conditions may have been faring worse than was being admitted by the Trump administration.
Read all the updates from the last 24 hours here.
With President Donald Trump undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at a military hospital, Democratic challenger Joe Biden’s campaign is looking to keep its focus on the nation’s response to the pandemic in the final month before the Nov. 3 election.Biden, who shared a debate stage with Trump last Tuesday, tested negative for the coronavirus again on Sunday, following two negative tests on Friday, the day Trump disclosed his COVID-19 infection.The former vice president has repeatedly wished Trump a speedy recovery. But Biden and his aides have used his Republican rival’s positive test to underline a consistent campaign message: Biden would handle the pandemic better than Trump. (Reuters)
Taiwan hopes that U.S. President Donald Trump can get better from the coronavirus soon so that he can continue to lead the free world in resisting China’s “outrages”, the speaker of the island’s parliament said on Monday. Democratic Taiwan has come under increasingly severe military pressure from China, which claims the island as its sovereign territory, with China’s air force sending frequent sorties to buzz Taiwan in recent weeks. Speaking ahead of Taiwan’s National Day celebrations on Saturday, parliament Speaker You Si-kun said he had been shocked to hear of Trump’s illness, and that he wished him well on behalf of the legislature. (Read More)
Even though Trump's condition remains unclear he could be discharged from hospital as soon as Monday, his doctors said. Admitted to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center since Friday, the president has released several videos in an effort to reassure the public that he is recovering.Trump is still being treated with a steroid, dexamethasone, that is normally used only in the most severe cases.
Dr. Sean P. Conley, the White House physician, said on Sunday that Trump's condition had been worse than he had previously admitted. Conley said Trump had run a high fever on Friday morning and he had been given supplemental oxygen after his blood oxygen levels had dropped. (Reuters)
US President Donald Trump briefly left the military hospital where he is being treated for COVID-19 in a motorcade on Sunday to wave to supporters gathered outside, sparking criticism that he was putting others at risk for a political stunt.
Trump was captured on video waving from the back seat of a black SUV Sunday evening, wearing a mask, as crowds cheered and waved American flags and pro-Trump banners outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Maryland.
Patients who test positive for COVID-19 are generally required to quarantine for 14 days, the typical incubation period for the coronavirus to avoid infecting others. The disease has killed more than 200,000 Americans.
The term “dystopia” is often overused. But, given what is happening in the US, it can legitimately be deployed for the upcoming presidential election. We are witnessing the makings of a disaster in the world’s oldest democracy, and perhaps nothing less than a frontal assault on the democratic process itself.
After cavalier defiance for months, President Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID-19. The electoral implications of this development are entirely unclear. The political logic of what he was doing thus far, however, is evident and can be analysed.
On November 3, the night of the election day, it is quite possible that Trump will be ahead of Joe Biden and will also claim victory. But days later, it is equally likely that Biden will be the winner. Why? (Read more here)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Sunday said that the doctors treating President Trump should provide trustworthy information to the public and reveal his "real(health) condition." Appearing on CBS, Pelosi said, "We need to have trust that what they're telling us about the President's condition is real." She expressed her worries that the information the doctors are relaying to the public "has to be approved by the president. That's not very scientific."
President Donald Trump briefly left the hospital Sunday in his car to wave to supporters gathered outside. The president's visit came shortly after he promised his supporters "a surprise" in a video posted a video on social media. "It's been a very interesting journey," Trump said in the video. "I learned a lot about COVID. I learned it by really going to school. This is the real school. This isn't the let's read the books school. And I get it, and I understand it. And it's a very interesting thing."
Joe Biden's campaign says the Democratic presidential nominee tested negative for coronavirus Sunday. The results come five days after Biden spent more than 90 minutes on the debate stage with President Donald Trump. The president was diagnosed with COVID-19 days after the debate, and he remains hospitalized. Biden had two negative tests on Friday, as well. Biden is scheduled to travel Monday to Florida. His campaign said it will continue to observe public health guidelines on masks, social distancing and crowd sizes. (AP)
Doctors have begun steroid treatment for President Trump after he experienced two oxygen drops but also suggested he could go home soon. (NYT)
The Trump campaign is not changing its advertising or messaging, even with the candidate in the hospital. The political operation is not bereft of leaders; the campaign manager is still helping run things from afar after testing positive for the virus. Advisers are not showing any evidence of worry, despite public polls showing President Donald Trump still behind in key states he won in 2016.
On the first weekend of the new Trump political reality, the overarching signals were about continuity and resolve, even though the landscape was one of change: rallies canceled in Wisconsin, fundraising reworked without the incumbent candidate and campaign operations adjusting on the fly.
At 4 p.m. on Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence held a call with the Trump-Pence reelection staff nationwide, trying to rally the troops and lay out the plans for the coming weeks. READ MORE
One month from Election Day, President Donald Trump is facing a credibility crisis as yawning as his health crisis, at a moment when he needs the public's trust the most. The president's coronavirus infection, as well as the illnesses of several aides and allies, has imperiled the highest levels of the US government.
The White House's efforts Saturday to project calm backfired in stunning fashion, resulting in a blizzard of confusing and contradictory information about the health and well-being of the commander in chief.
It's a moment months in the making, the collision of Trump's repeated defiance of his own administration's guidelines for staying safe during the pandemic and his well-known disregard for facts.
President Donald Trump’s startling Covid-19 diagnosis serves as a cruel reminder of the pervasive spread of the coronavirus and shows how tenuous of a grip the nation has on the crisis, health experts said.
With US infections rising for several weeks, Trump became one of the tens of thousands of Americans who test positive each day. He went through a “very concerning” period Friday and the next 48 hours “will be critical” in his care, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Saturday. That differed dramatically from the rosy assessment by Trump’s staff and doctors, who took pains not to reveal the president had received supplemental oxygen at the White House before he went to a military hospital. Some of Trump’s top advisers and allies also have tested positive recently.
“No one is entirely out of the virus’s reach, even those supposedly inside a protective bubble,” said Josh Michaud, associate director of global health policy with the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington. (AP)
Ivanka Trump Saturday shared an image in which Donald Trump is seen working in his conference room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after testing positive for COVID-19 and said that the president was "relentless" for doing so. "Nothing can stop him from working for the American people. RELENTLESS!", Ivanka wrote on Twitter.
One month from Election Day, President Donald Trump is facing a credibility crisis as yawning as his health crisis, at a moment when he needs the public's trust the most. The president's coronavirus infection, as well as the illnesses of several aides and allies, has imperiled the highest levels of the U.S. government. The White House's efforts Saturday to project calm backfired in stunning fashion, resulting in a blizzard of confusing and contradictory information about the health and well-being of the commander in chief. It's a moment months in the making, the collision of Trump's repeated defiance of his own administration's guidelines for staying safe during the pandemic and his well-known disregard for facts. The result: deep uncertainty for Americans over who and what to believe about the health of the nation's leader at a perilous moment in U.S. history.(AP)
Nick Luna, one of president's personal assistants tested positive for the coronavirus after having travelled with Trump several times recently, a White House official said Saturday night.( With AP)
President Donald Trump went through a very concerning period Friday and faces a critical next two days in his fight against the virus, his chief of staff said Saturday . This stays in contrast to a rosier assessment moments earlier by Trump doctors who took pains not to reveal the president had received supplemental oxygen at the White House before his hospital admission.
Hours before Trump released a video message thanking everyone for the wishes and said that he was feeling better, chief of staff Mark Meadows told reporters outside the hospital, 'we're still not on a clear path yet to a full recovery.'
The changing and at times contradictory accounts created a credibility crisis for the White House at a crucial moment with the president's health and the nations leadership on the line. (AP)
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tweeted Saturday that he's checked himself into a hospital, hours after he announced he had tested positive for the coronavirus.Christie said that after consulting with his doctors, he went to Morristown Medical Center Saturday afternoon. He said he's only experiencing mild symptoms.
Christie is the latest in a string of virus cases connected to President Donald Trump's inner circle.
Ivanka Trump: "Spoke to my father again and he is as optimistic, thankful and strong as he looks and sounds in this message to America!"
US President Donald Trump's doctors say the president is doing well, is fever-free and isn't having difficulty breathing after contracting the coronavirus.
Doctors said Saturday that Trump was not on supplemental oxygen, and while he had fatigue, nasal congestion and coughing, his symptoms are now resolving and improving.
Dr Sean Conley, Trump's physician, refused to say whether Trump had been on supplemental oxygen at any point during his illness, saying he was not on it Saturday or Thursday or Friday while he was with the medical team from Walter Reed Medical Center. (Reuters)
North Carolina's intensely competitive and expensive US Senate race has been upended by personal and health disruptions that sent sharp tremors and uncertainty through the campaigns and and electorate already casting ballots, PTI reported.
Democratic nominee Cal Cunningham acknowledged and apologised for exchanging sexually suggestive text messages with a woman who ia not his wife, but said he won't drop out of the race.
Just a few hours earlier on Friday evening, his opponent, Republican Senator Thom Tillis announced he tested positive for Covid-19.
President Donald Trump, who was flown to a military hospital for treatment of COVID-19, is in "exceptionally good spirits" and has been "fever free" for the last 24 hours, his doctors said on Saturday.
Col. Sean N Dooley said that President Trump is not on oxygen and is not having difficulty breathing or walking around. "He is in exceptionally good spirits," he said while updating on the president's health.
"We are monitoring him very closely for any evidence of complications from either the coronavirus illness or the therapies that we are prescribing to make him better," CNN quoted him as saying. Dooley said the president's cardiac, kidney and liver functions were all normal this morning. Trump's physician Dr. Sean Conley said the president had a "mild cough and some nasal congestion, fatigue" on Thursday, "all of which are resolving and improving." (PTI)
Vice President Mike Pence in March directed the nation's top disease control agency to use its emergency powers to effectively seal the U.S. borders, overruling the agency's scientists who said there was no evidence the action would slow the coronavirus, according to two former health officials.
The action has so far caused nearly 150,000 children and adults to be expelled from the country. The top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doctor who oversees these types of orders had refused to comply with a Trump administration directive saying there was no valid public health reason to issue it, according to three people with direct knowledge of the doctor's refusal.
So Pence intervened in early March. The vice president, who had taken over the Trump administration's response to the growing pandemic, called Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC's director, and told him to use the agency's special legal authority in a pandemic anyway. (AP)
An election year already defined by a cascade of national crises descended further into chaos Friday, with President Donald Trump quarantined at a military hospital with the coronavirus after consistently playing down the threat.
Democratic challenger Joe Biden took down his attack ads and pressed a bipartisan message in battleground Michigan after he and his wife tested negative. "This cannot be a partisan moment. It must be an American moment. We have to come together as a nation," Biden declared at a speech in Grand Rapids, warning that the virus "is not going away automatically."
While Biden vowed to continue his cautious approach to campaigning during the pandemic, the president's diagnosis injected even greater uncertainty into an election already plagued by crises that have exploded under Trump's watch: the pandemic, devastating economic fallout and sweeping civil unrest. With millions of Americans already voting, the country on Friday entered uncharted territory that threatened to rattle global markets and political debates around the world. (AP)
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday wished a speedy recovery to his US counterpart Donald Trump and first lady Melania who have tested positive for coronavirus.
President Trump revealed his diagnosis on Twitter on Friday, with leaders across the globe sending their well wishes.
'Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!' 74-year-old Trump tweeted, just weeks before the presidential polls.
In a message to Trump, Xi, 67, said that after learning President Trump and Melania have tested positive for COVID-19, he and his wife Peng Liyuan extend sympathy to them and wish them a speedy recovery, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
Infection causes mild or no symptoms in about 80 per cent of cases. About 15 per cent of people become seriously ill and 5 per cent get critically ill.
Symptoms, when they do occur, usually appear two to 14 days after infection and can include loss of smell or taste, coughing, a sore throat, trouble breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea and fever. Up to half of patients who are hospitalized don't have a fever when admitted but nearly all develop one.
How people fare varies widely - some seem to be recovering and then suddenly worsen. Pneumonia, often with a specific appearance on X-rays, sometimes develops but complications in virtually every organ of the body have been reported. Doctors also increasingly recognize that some people have long-lasting symptoms.
TRUMP'S RISKS
Older age, being male and having any other health problems increase the chance of severe illness, and Trump has those. At 74, "his age would be the primary risk factor," said Dr. David Banach, an infectious diseases physician at the University of Connecticut's health system.
People ages 65 to 74 are seven times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 than those who are 18 to 29 years old, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The risks rise exponentially at older ages.
Trump also is obese, with a body mass index just past 30. "Obesity is a state of chronic lowered immunity. In other words, you don't respond to vaccines as well, you don't respond to infections as well" as people of normal weight, Poland said. Trump takes a statin drug to lower his cholesterol, and that condition also raises his risk for COVID-19 complications, doctors said. (AP)
President Donald Trump has several strikes against him - age, obesity, elevated cholesterol and being male - that could put him at greater risk of becoming seriously ill from the coronavirus infection he disclosed early Friday.
Trump and first lady Melania Trump, who also tested positive, "are both well at this time" and plan to remain at the White House while recovering and being closely monitored, according to a statement from his physician, Dr. Sean Conley.
A White House official said Friday that Trump was having mild symptoms.
"The odds are far and away that he'll have a mild illness" as most people with the virus do, said Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious disease specialist at the Mayo Clinic who has no role in Trump's care. But COVID-19 is very unpredictable, he stressed. "We have young people who die. We have nursing home patients, a lot of them, who actually do quite well," Poland said. (AP)
Wearing his signature hoodie and beanie, an earbud casually hanging from one ear, passionate Parkland teen Joaquin Oliver urges his peers to vote for lawmakers who will end gun violence in a new video released Friday. Next month's election would have been his first chance to vote.
The 17-year-old's mannerisms and vernacular "yo, it's me" are shockingly life like, but it is just a mirage - a realistic, almost eerie artificial intelligence re-creation of the teen who was among the 17 killed in the 2018 Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, the worst school shooting in history.
From the grave, the teen is now begging his peers to cast the vote that he will never cast. "I've been gone for two years and nothing's changed, bro. People are still getting killed by guns," he implores in the video created by his parents' charity to end gun violence. (AP)
US Vice President Mike Pence, next in line for the Oval Office, tested negative for COVID-19, hours after President Donald Trump announced that he was infected and went into quarantine, Pence's spokesman said on Friday.
'This morning, Vice President Pence and the Second Lady tested negative for COVID-19. Vice President Pence remains in good health and wishes the Trumps well in their recovery,' spokesman Devin O'Malley said on Twitter.
Pence, 61, is scheduled to debate his Democratic rival, Joe Biden's running mate Senator Kamala Harris on Wednesday in Utah.
Former NASA astronaut and retired US Navy captain, Scott Kelly Friday wished US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump a speedy recovery. Taking to Twitter, Kelly said "Wishing for a speedy recovery for @POTUS, @FLOTUS, the government officials, journalists and all others affected by this most recent COVID-19 outbreak.”
U.S. President Donald Trump was in a military hospital on Saturday for treatment after testing positive for COVID-19, an extraordinary development that upended the presidential race a month before the Nov. 3 election.Roughly 17 hours after he made his diagnosis public, Trump walked slowly from the White House to a waiting helicopter to be taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He wore a mask and business suit and did not speak to reporters."I think I'm doing very well, but we're going to make sure that things work out," Trump said in a brief video message posted on Twitter
President Donald Trump who tested positive for the coronavirus Thursday is "doing very well" and does not require any supplemental oxygen as of now, according to Trump's Friday Evening Health Update. However, a Remedesivir therapy will be initiated following consultation from specialists, the president's physician informed adding that "he has completed his first dose and is resting comfortably.”
Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden Friday said that Donald Trump testing positive is a 'bracing reminder' to take Covid-19 seriously. 'This is not a matter of politics. It's a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously. It's not going away automatically. We have to do our part to be responsible,' he said.
In a Michigan campaign rally, Biden wished for the speedy recovery of the president and first lady. "Sending my prayers (for) health and safety of the first lady and the president of the United States after they tested positive for COVID-19. My wife Jill and I pray that they will make a quick and full recovery,"he said.
News Friday that President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 sparked an explosion of rumours, misinformation and conspiracy theories that in a matter of hours littered the social media feeds of many Americans.
Tweets shared thousands of times claimed Democrats might have somehow intentionally infected the president with the coronavirus during the debates.
Others speculated in Facebook posts that maybe the president was faking his illness. And the news also ignited constant conjecture among QAnon followers, who peddle a baseless belief that Trump is a warrior against a secret network of government officials and celebrities that they falsely claim is running a child trafficking ring.
In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis was swept into an online vortex of coronavirus misinformation and the falsehoods swirling around this polarizing election. (AP)
Assistant and Senior Counselor to the President, Kellyanne Conway Friday tested positive for the coronavirus. In a tweet posted on Friday night, Conway said, "Tonight I tested positive for COVID-19. My symptoms are mild (light cough) and I’m feeling fine. I have begun a quarantine process in consultation with physicians. As always, my heart is with everyone affected by this global pandemic."
After testing Covid positive, US President Donald Trump arrives at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
A helicopter carrying President Donald Trump to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center landed on Friday at the facility, where the president will be treated for the coronavirus. According to Reuters, the president, who walked to the helicopter as he left the White House, said nothing to waiting reporters.
"I want to thank everybody for the tremendous support. I'm going to Walter Reed hospital. I think I am doing very well but we are going to make sure that things work out. The first lady is doing very well," US President Donald Trump said in a video message on Saturday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a consolation letter to President Donald Trump on the news he had contracted the coronavirus, North Korean state media said on Saturday. Kim said he 'sincerely hopes' Trump and his wife will recover as soon as possible, KCNA reported.
After being diagnosed with COVID-19, US President Trump departs the White House for a multi-day stay at Walter Reed Medical Center.
Democrat Joe Biden's presidential campaign is temporarily taking down negative ads regarding President Donald Trump after his diagnosis with the novel coronavirus, a person familiar with the matter told news agency Reuters.
President Donald Trump has been treated with an experimental antibody cocktail for COVID-19 and "remains fatigued but in good spirits," the president's physician, Dr. Sean Conley, said on Friday.
Conley said in a statement that the president received an intravenous dose of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc's dual antibody and was also taking zinc, vitamin D, famotidine, melatonin, and aspirin, news agency Reuters reported. Regeneron's drug, REGN-COV2, is part of a class of experimental COVID-19 drugs known as monoclonal antibodies: manufactured copies of human antibodies to the virus that are being studied for use in patients with early illness.
US President Donald Trump is moving to a military hospital for treatment after being diagnosed with Covid, a White House official said on Friday. "Out of an abundance of caution, and at the recommendation of his physician and medical experts, the President will be working from the presidential offices at Walter Reed for the next few days," White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement.
The news came after White House doctor Sean P. Conley wrote that Trump "remains fatigued but in good spirits."
Cleveland officials say they're aware of 11 positive coronavirus cases related to the setup and planning for Tuesday's presidential debate.
The city said in a statement Friday that it's working with state and federal officials and is involved with interviewing those who tested positive.
Earlier Friday, President Donald Trump announced that he and the first lady had tested positive for COVID-19. Both traveled to Cleveland on Tuesday for the first presidential. (AP)
The Trump campaign on Friday said that all previously announced campaign events involving US President Donald Trump would be moved to a virtual setting or temporarily postponed after he tested positive for Covid-19.