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Why won’t White House say when Trump last tested negative?
The Associated Press ^ | October 9, 2020 | By JILL COLVIN (D-AP)

Posted on 10/09/2020 1:01:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

It is a basic, crucial question and one the White House refuses to answer: When was President Donald Trump’s last negative test for the coronavirus before he tested positive last week?

“Yeah, I’m not going to give you a detailed readout with timestamps every time the president’s tested,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters last weekend.

“I can’t reveal that at this time,” echoed Alyssa Farah, the White House director of strategic communications. “Doctors would like to keep it private.”

“I don’t want to go backwards,” said Dr. Sean Conley, the president’s physician.

The answer could help fill in vital details about the course of the president’s illness as well as when he may have been contagious and whom else he may have exposed. And the White House refusal to answer makes it hard not to wonder what they’re hiding, given other details they’ve shared.

“At this point it’s just so strange that they’re unwilling to give us the information,” said Michael Joseph Mina, a physician and professor of epidemiology at Harvard. “It makes people start thinking things like, ‘Was the president the super-spreader?’... If there was no nefarious activity going on, then they should have no problem answering this question.”

The information is also key to tracking who else may have been exposed to the virus so their contacts can be traced to prevent new clusters of infection.

“Then you can get an idea, potentially, of when he was infected, how long his incubation period was, and also then evaluate who may have been exposed to him over that time frame,” said Benjamin Pinsky, medical director of the clinical virology laboratory at Stanford Health Care. While there is considerable variability between cases, he said, Trump was most likely infectious several days before he tested positive.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; conspiracytheory; covid; election2020; jillcolvin; journalism; leftwingnutjob; media
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To: Colo9250

Tax records, I want to see chucky’s nancy’s drug tests results. For that matter, make it all of the legislative branch.

And ets find out how many have been using adrenochrome too.


81 posted on 10/09/2020 3:49:51 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Yeah, I’m not going to give you a detailed readout with timestamps every time the president’s tested,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters last weekend.

They omitted the next part of her statement: "He's tested regularly, and the first positive test he's received was Thursday after he returned from Bedminster." Judd Deere had previously told BuzzFeed on Friday the 2nd that Trump along with everyone on Air Force One were tested on the Tuesday of the debate.

82 posted on 10/09/2020 3:52:46 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: rlbedfor

What I have learned about voting from the Covid fiasco is that the local vote is just as or more important than the top ticket.

As far as I am concerned a Democrat is not qualified as a dog catcher, and is in fact a subversive mole most likely pissing in the town well.


83 posted on 10/09/2020 3:57:01 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel

Trump should make a deal... he’ll release his Covid test if Biden will release his medical records.. MSM not interested in Joe tho


84 posted on 10/09/2020 5:21:35 PM PDT by gswilder
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To: ifinnegan

...the super-spreader...
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Do we have incontrovertible evidence of the existence of so-called *super-spreaders”, defined as testing positive via PCR, but otherwise asymptomatic?

Infected persons can transmit the virus, Ok. Is that only when they have symptoms? Is a positive test evidence of transmission capability?

Is detection via a PCR test the same as being infectious?

Serious questions.


85 posted on 10/09/2020 7:04:41 PM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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To: Yo-Yo
I think he caught it AT the debates, and not by accident...

Well, the RATs have tried everything else. Why wouldn't they try to assassinate him?

86 posted on 10/09/2020 7:49:04 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Unlike Jeffery Epstein, George Floyd DID kill himself.)
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