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White House: Trump after testing positive, has 'mild symptoms' of COVID-19
Associated Press via Star Tribune ^ | 10/02/2020 | By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press

Posted on 10/02/2020 10:02:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The White House said Friday that President Donald Trump was suffering “mild symptoms” of COVID-19, adding that he was in good spirits and working in the family quarters though the announcement of his illness threw the country deeper into uncertainty just a month before the presidential election.

The revelation came in a Trump tweet about 1 a.m. after he had returned from an afternoon political fundraiser without telling the crowd he had been exposed to an aide with the disease that has killed more than 205,000 Americans and more than a million people worldwide.

First lady Melania Trump also tested positive, the president said, and several others in the White House have, too, prompting concern that the White House or even Trump himself might have spread the virus further. The Trumps' son Barron, who lives at the White House, tested negative.

Trump has spent much of the year downplaying the threat of the virus, rarely wearing a protective mask and urging states and cities to “reopen” and reduce or eliminate shutdown rules.

Both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris have tested negative, their campaign said. Vice President Mike Pence tested negative for the virus Friday morning and “remains in good health,” his spokesman said.

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who was with him and many others on Saturday and has been on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers, also tested negative, the White House said.

Trump's diagnosis was sure to have a destabilizing effect in Washington and around the world, raising questions about how far the virus has spread through the highest levels of U.S. government. Hours before Trump announced he had contracted the virus, the White House said a top aide who had traveled with him during the week had tested positive.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: associatedpress; braking; covid19; duluth; fearpers; flubros; jillcolvin; justtheflu; lateagain; mildsymptoms; trump; trumpcovid; zekemiller
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To: Alberta's Child

“CNN also reported that a cooler containing lungs, heart, liver and kidney for transplant was delivered to Trump’s nearby golf club in Virginia.”

Yeah, that’s fake news.

None of those organs survive long outside the body.


81 posted on 10/02/2020 11:00:46 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

“ instead of fretting over every wild ass report out of the gossip media, everyone should go to the Trump campaign page and make a donation.

Something constructive.”

Great post.


82 posted on 10/02/2020 11:03:01 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: Alberta's Child

Lol


83 posted on 10/02/2020 11:03:30 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: TECTopcat
how would CNN know if a ventilator was delivered? ===== They delivered it. 😁
84 posted on 10/02/2020 11:08:47 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: krny9

I have an admission.

I assert that normally President Trump would be broadcasting over Zoom or virtually in some fashion how well he feels, how everything will be fine, how he feels great.

But today, the day AFTER he tests positive for Covid-19 we don’t see him at all?

I think that’s odd.

But may I please be wrong because the man IS 74 years old, he’s been running himself ragged of late.....

Again.....I am a bit concerned.


85 posted on 10/02/2020 11:10:42 AM PDT by Fishtalk (9/21/20 Pandemic 2020-Supreme Court Justice Passes, Stock Market Div)
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To: LouieFisk

I heard sometimes your hair falls out.


86 posted on 10/02/2020 11:11:23 AM PDT by Fishtalk (9/21/20 Pandemic 2020-Supreme Court Justice Passes, Stock Market Div)
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To: SeekAndFind

You would think that his daily interaction with that list of people would create a large fraction of infections. Only Hope Hicks was mentioned as positive for the virus.

But of course state media has a field day blasting Trump for flouting cautions of virus spread.

What is clear is that many, many more people have the virus but no symptoms. They are asymptomatic, they have no idea they even have the virus.

And for most of those that contract the virus and show symptoms, their symptoms are mild.

A very small fraction of the population that is positive for the virus will actually develop full-blown dangerous COVID symptoms such as inability to breathe or pneumonia.

Scientists need to isolate with precision why certain people get dangerous symptoms. One way to do this is via genetic expression array testing to see what part of their genome overreacts to the virus.


87 posted on 10/02/2020 11:19:28 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

I have! Sending a get-well card too.


88 posted on 10/02/2020 11:21:45 AM PDT by Marchmain (i vote pro-life)
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To: Fishtalk

“I heard sometimes your hair falls out.”

As the years go by, yes it does. Oh, you didn;t mean me in specific? Heh.
But yeah, also in a video I watched, one guy who had it said it also affected his favorite fun body part’s ability to stand up and salute.


89 posted on 10/02/2020 11:24:19 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Mariner

Fake news.

If a ventilator was warranted, even as precaution, POTUS would be at Walter Reed.

Exactly. This CNN report is every bit as accurate as anything published by The Atlantic.


90 posted on 10/02/2020 11:26:26 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: LilFarmer
Comorbities include age and BMI over 30.

Age is tied to the comorbidities as older people tend to have more disease such as COPD, diabetes, heart disease etc. It’s not necessarily a comorbidity on its own.

Do you know for a fact his BMI is >30 or is that an assumption?

91 posted on 10/02/2020 11:28:32 AM PDT by Shethink13
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To: windsorknot
cnn2-vi
92 posted on 10/02/2020 11:29:28 AM PDT by timestax
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To: Hildy

How long were you sick if you don’t mind me asking?


93 posted on 10/02/2020 11:29:47 AM PDT by funfan
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To: cdcdawg
“CNN just said a ventilator has been delivered to the white house” That leads me to believe that a ventilator has not been delivered to the White House..

Lol. love it. And yeah that is the way to read any of their sick, lying sacks of garbage news.

94 posted on 10/02/2020 11:38:18 AM PDT by boxlunch (The US Pravda ( MSM), Demcheviks, leftists, Chicomms, Soros. All in this together.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Many military types on other FR threads said those planes are up all the time, nothing different than usual. The press is just commenting on them to make it seem like the world is coming to an end... on and on..


95 posted on 10/02/2020 11:41:03 AM PDT by boxlunch (The US Pravda ( MSM), Demcheviks, leftists, Chicomms, Soros. All in this together.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank you for the love you are sending our way. I have mild symptoms but overall feeling good. I am looking forward to a speedy recovery.— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) October 2, 2020


96 posted on 10/02/2020 11:41:42 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: SeekAndFind; miserare; KavMan; brookwood; karpov; rxsid; EBH
A Texas front-line doctor @ProctorMD recommended 10 days of medication to POTUS and Melania this morning.

In his experience, most patients will have been cured after this regimen. The results have been only 1 death vs 479 patients cured this way. He says 320 of his patients have been high risk.







97 posted on 10/02/2020 11:47:54 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Hey Liberals, when you eventually need it, remember: (HCQ +AZ) cures TDS)
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To: Future Useless Eater

I forgot the link
https://twitter.com/ProcterMd/status/1311897740591456257
https://archive.is/wip/Idk0L


98 posted on 10/02/2020 11:49:28 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Hey Liberals, when you eventually need it, remember: (HCQ +AZ) cures TDS)
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To: Jane Long; nutmeg; nikos1121; upchuck; MayflowerMadam; Buckeye McFrog
Rally ping...see you tonight!!!

BREAKING: President Trump will hold a virtual campaign rally on Friday night after he and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19.

How to watch: https://t.co/yU2l21Mq2f— FOX 35 Orlando (@fox35orlando) October 2, 2020


99 posted on 10/02/2020 11:56:16 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Miss Didi

Let’s break the record audience on RSBN tonight!


100 posted on 10/02/2020 11:57:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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