White House not doing enough to protect Trump from coronavirus, medical expert warns
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White House not doing enough to protect Trump from coronavirus, medical expert warns
July 28, 2020, 11:44 AMA leading medical expert has claimed that stronger coronavirus measures need to be taken at the White House to prevent president Donald Trump from contracting Covid-19 .
The president’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien tested positive for coronavirus on Monday, just weeks after vice president Mike Pence ’s press secretary Katie Miller announced she had contracted Covid-19.
After Mr O’Brien tested positive for the virus, Mr Trump downplayed the seriousness of the situation and a White House statement added: “There is no risk of exposure to the president or the vice president.”
Speaking about the White House’s coronavirus protocols following the latest positive test of a staffer, Dr Jonathan Reiner, the professor of medicine at The George Washington University Medical Centre, told CNN: “What they’re not using at the White House is a strategy of massive mask-wearing for everyone.”
White House staff members are tested regularly even if they are not showing symptoms and the details of anyone who comes into contact with the president are taken in order to make sure they are tested for Covid-19, according to CNN .
However, Dr Reiner said that if mandatory mask wearing is not introduced in the White House, then “a very senior member, even higher in the government than the national security adviser will contract this virus”.
Dr Reiner also suggested that because of his age, the president should be concerned about the effects of coronavirus on his overall health, according to Raw Story .
“I want to remind people that Herman Cain, who’s exactly the same age as the president of the United States, has been in the hospital for a month after contracting the virus,” he said.
“This president is 74 years old. He is at great risk of a tragic outcome should he acquire this,” Dr Reiner added.
The World Health Organisation has outlined that “Covid-19 is often more severe in people who are older than 60 years”, and advised people in that age group to limit visitors to only those who are essential.
Mr O’Brien is the most senior member of Mr Trump’s staff to have contracted Covid-19 and has an office that is situated close to the president in the Oval Office .
Mr Trump visited Miami, Florida, with Mr O’Brien just two weeks ago, but a high ranking official in the White House told the BBC that the president had not been in close contact with him for “several days”.
The White House statement added that Mr O’Brien “has mild symptoms and has been self-isolating,” and the “work of the National Security Council continues uninterrupted”.
The White House’s deputy press secretary Judd Deere told The Independent that “the president’s physician and White House Operations work closely to incorporate current CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) guidance and best practices to ensure every precaution is taken to keep the president, first family and the entire White House complex safe and healthy at all times.
“In addition to social distancing, readily available hand sanitiser, regular deep cleaning of all work spaces, and facial coverings, those in close proximity to the president continue to be tested for Covid-19 to ensure exposure is limited to the greatest extent possible.”
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Why do you say that? Age is just one element of the equation;
I'm hoping it's combined with serious medical issues that weren't disclosed.
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Luckily, that hatred has spread to only the lowest number ideological group in the country.
Some people are so full of hatred they’re just sick in the head.
Indeed. See #10 below for proof...
#10? No need, I see proof in this thread.
who? those tea party dipshits?
No, the [ Deleted terrorists ]
When it gets closer to November 3, when it looks like he's going to lose, he could try to get the virus in order to either hope for a sympathy vote, or to give an excuse for not winning.
He better hope he doesn't contract it. I don't think it will go well for him if he does
Could you see him quarantining for two weeks? He would blow up Twitter. But I am betting he would play golf non stop.
We all know that if Obama were president (thank God he no longer is), and conservatives said the same some of the loons of the left are saying here, there would be a frenzy of name calling, insults, death wishing the conservative and their family, and attempts to get the conservative banned from the site.
Thankfully, those of us on the right are far more intelligent to not do such stupidity.
No one can argue this, so don't even try.
This is going to be meta but just following the lead from your comment.
The conservatives are already bitching about the libs responses by accusing us of deep seated hatred and more.
Most liberals DO hate deep seated hatred....and more.
The one thing you hate the most is a man named Donald Trump, and the only reason libs can come up with for that hatred is that his name is not Hillary Clinton.
The last 3.5 years have been absolutely miserable to most on the left, even though their unemployment payments have gone up 600 a week.
You're right. We do HATE hate from people.
How many podcasts of the Rush Linbaugh show do you have time for bugsy.....?
Well you see Fly, I have a job...a full time job. Something I have had since I was 17, right before I joined the Navy for 20 years. I don't have time for Rush, blog or otherwise.
I'm not a liberal veteran wearing a Navy sweatshirt doing something stupid as approaching RIOT police as they are trying to disperse a RIOT.
those of us on the right are far more intelligent to not do such stupidity
You've got to be joking. The stupidity starts and ends with the lunatic reactionary right.
Lunatic reactionary preachers pray for Obama's death:
Lunatic reactionary Senator prays for Obama's death:
Obama Derangement Syndrome is rampant among reactionaries.
Should a Christian preach hate?
In some of the churches that I have attended when I was researching religions when I was young, I found that to happen fairly often, especially, in the Southern states. But, that is where I was raised so I didn't have a chance to research any churches in the Northern states.
One of the many reasons I am not associated with any organized religions. If the Preachers teach hate, and are supposed to do so in God's name, then I want nothing to do with them.
We've been told that trmp gets tested regularly. Does that mean he gets that Q-tip shoved up his nose at least twice a week? That could explain a lot of the sniffing....
I took the CV test (neg) and those Q tips are not something I hope to do again.
I heard it's very unpleasant
I went into a sneezing fit.
That was the first thing I thought of when I saw them poking those long stemmed q-tips up people's noses. I know that is what I would wind up doing.
Dat could bes 'cause hims Tetty Baer gots deh Birus, and hims can't be helded wite nows.