Trump Takes Coronavirus Test
Last edited Sat Mar 14, 2020, 01:33 PM - Edit history (6)
Source: CNN
(CNN)President Donald Trump announced Saturday at a press briefing at the White House that he has been tested for coronavirus.
He said he was tested Friday night and also had his temperature taken Saturday before entering the briefing room. Trump said his temperature was normal.
When asked when he would announce the results, he said that the test was sent to a lab and could take a day or two.
The White House doctor also took the temperature of the task force members before the group's meeting today, an official said.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/14/politics/trump-press-conference-coronavirus/index.html?utm_content=2020-03-14T16%3A39%3A25&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNN
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/trump-coronavirus-paid-sick-leave-unemployment-testing
On Saturday, the Australian home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, said he did not become contagious with Covid-19 until three days until after a trip to Washington during which he met Ivanka Trump and attorney general William Barr. The US president's daughter entered self-isolation after Dutton's condition was reported.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/14/coronavirus-trumps-white-house-doctor-says-he-doesnt-need-test/5049602002/
Also on Friday, the White House said in a statement that Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and senior adviser, was working from home after coming into contact with an Australian official who announced he was diagnosed with COVID-19.
https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-discloses-more-trump-exposure-to-coronavirus-but-says-he-wont-be-tested-after-all-134823358.html
[div class"excerpt"]Leana Wen, a former Baltimore City health commissioner, who is now an emergency physician and professor at George Washington University, told Yahoo News on Friday that it is possible that people who have mild symptoms or no symptoms at all could be spread the virus to others.
If Trump is such a carrier, he could be what Wen called a "super-spreader," someone who infects more than two to three people, which the average number infected by a virus carrier.
"There are some people who end up spreading the virus to many more. The more people one is in contact with, the more they could potentially spread the disease," she said.
Wen said the president's delay in getting tested went against basic public health protocols. "The standard public health practice is to test all contacts, so at a time of a public health emergency, when containment is key, everyone should abide by public health principles no matter their position or their title," she said.
Blue Owl
(50,386 posts)n/t
mahina
(17,663 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,392 posts)If Dr. Fauci says he administered that test, then I'll believe it.
JDC
(10,127 posts)No way that clown hasn't been tested already. This is just the "formal and for show" version.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)He also oversaw taking down health posters in Immigration Courtrooms. Over the objections of the judges. He probably didn't personally order it, but Donny Six Words is responsible whether he denies it or not.
Harker
(14,019 posts)can get one, he was likely just repeating what he was told regarding his own family.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)which means he'll never release the results!
underpants
(182,819 posts)That's is all
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)he's just doing it to keep his doctors and family happy.
gembaby1
(253 posts)No one will ever believe anything Trump or his acolytes have to say.
ashredux
(2,606 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,998 posts)At least if he is quarantined, we will not have to see his ugly face on television for a couple of weeks.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)He obviously wouldn't be able to do any presidentin', so he could concentrate on tweeting and announcing fake news briefings.
He CAN NOT DO WITHOUT the attention. He is a junkie. (in more ways than one...)
boilinmad
(267 posts)As if we would believe a single word that he vomits out of his foul mouth.
flt rsk
(92 posts)jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)to take it for him. Of course, who can find one of those in this administration?
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)Now how about tax returns along with the COVID-19 test.
tinrobot
(10,903 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,148 posts)Because he's been too addled to function in office since, well...day one.
olddad65
(599 posts)Grown2Hate
(2,012 posts)earthside
(6,960 posts)It is going to come back as positive for malignant moronavirus.
(And then he'll lie about that and say he passed the test with the highest score of anyone who ever took the test in the history of the world.)
jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)Barely above freezing, I suspect.
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)sent to a lab and could take a day or two.....
Sounds alot like "My taxes are at the IRS and could take a bit...
zonkers
(5,865 posts)Blues Heron
(5,936 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)olddad65
(599 posts)He wants to, but it is a matter of his national insecurity.
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)like he did all through college.
Daddy Fred paid big bucks for Donny's degree, just like Poppy Bush did for Junior's.
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