🔄 Click here to see the most recent entries
5 posts
12 hours ago
White House Correspondents Association denounces Trump photoshoot
By Allie Malloy
The president of the White House Correspondents Association, Zeke Miller, denounced President Donald Trump in a statement for boarding his caravan for a photo shoot around the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center without the press group he is supposed to accompany. to the president every time he's out of the White House.
Read the statement:
“It is outrageous that the president has left the hospital, even briefly, in the midst of a health crisis without a press group present to make sure the American people know where their president is and how he is doing.
Now more than ever, the American public deserves independent coverage of the President so they can be reliably informed about their health. "
Some context: The White House press group was not notified of Trump's move outside the Walter Reed Medical Center, according to the group's latest report.
It is very irregular that the press group does not accompany the president during a transfer.
39 minutes ago
At least 7 people who attended the Supreme Court announcement tested positive
By Maeve Reston
Many of President Donald Trump's advisers or contacts who recently tested positive for COVID-19 attended the White House event honoring Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on September 26 in the Rose Garden.
At least seven people who attended the event, including the president and the first lady, tested positive.
The President of the University of Notre Dame, the Reverend John Jenkins;
Former Counsel to President Kellyanne Conway and Republican Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who were sitting relatively close to each other, tested positive.
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie also tested positive and was checked into the hospital Saturday as a precautionary measure because he has asthma.
Conway;
Christie;
Trump's senior adviser, Hope Hicks: and her campaign manager Bill Stepien, who tested positive, also participated in preparing for the debate ahead of Tuesday's clash between Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
"It seems highly likely that this stemmed from the Supreme Court announcement last week," a senior administration official told CNN's Jake Tapper about the outbreak among Republican officials.
'It may have come from Congress.
The next big concern will be to secure the Capitol and protect the legislators, "added the official.
Trump did not address anyone else's diagnosis during a video message from Walter Reed on Saturday.
While praising the medical care he had received, he tried to take advantage of his hospitalization by making it appear that his diagnosis had been unavoidable, although he took few precautions to avoid it.
1 hour ago
What we know at this hour about Trump, his treatment and more
By CNN
(Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump is hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he has spent the past few days following the announcement of his coronavirus diagnosis on Friday.
Here is a summary of the latest developments:
Trump could be discharged later today: Dr. Brian Garibaldi, who is part of Trump's medical team, said the president could be discharged from the Walter Reed center as soon as this Monday.
Trump completed a second dose of remdesivir on Saturday and "feels good today," Garibaldi said Sunday.
He added that if the president "continues to look and feel as good as he does," they expected to discharge him on Monday to continue his treatment at the White House.
Photograph: Trump left the Walter Reed Medical Center on Sunday with his security team so he could travel in a van and pass his supporters who were cheering him on outside the hospital.
The White House claims "appropriate precautions" were taken, but Walter Reed's treating physician, Dr. James Phillips, criticized the move as potentially life-threatening Secret Service agents accompanying the president, saying that "irresponsibility is amazing."
Two drops in oxygen levels: On Sunday, Trump's physician, Dr. Sean Conley, said the president experienced "two episodes of transient drops in his oxygen saturation."
On Friday morning, Trump "had a high fever and his oxygen saturation transiently dropped below 94%," Conley said.
He added that Trump received supplemental oxygen.
Then on Saturday, the president had a second episode of his oxygen level drop, "to about 93%," Conley said.
Dexamethasone: After his oxygen level transiently dropped Saturday, Trump received the corticosteroid drug dexamethasone, Conley said.
Dexamethasone is a widely available steroid drug and is generally administered to patients receiving supplemental oxygen or requiring ventilation.
"We decided that, in this case, the potential benefits early in the course probably outweighed the risks," Conley said.
Mixed Messages: But Conley has been criticized for making confusing and misleading comments, including one he later dismissed, about the president's condition.
On Sunday, Conley defended the decision not to disclose that the president was administered oxygen, saying he wanted to "reflect the optimistic attitude of the team."
Other developments to consider:
Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Sunday.
Attorney General William Barr will self-quarantine "for now," but is expected to return to work this week, according to a Justice Department spokesman.
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen Pence, tested negative for COVID-19 on Sunday.
Trump has no events on his schedule for Monday as he remains hospitalized.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany did not disclose the number of West Wing staff members who tested positive for COVID-19, citing privacy concerns, despite White House spokeswoman Alyssa Farah previously said they would.
At least seven people who attended the White House event honoring Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Sept. 26 in the Rose Garden tested positive for COVID-19.
Among them are the president and the first lady;
the president of the University of Notre Dame, the Reverend John Jenkins;
Former Counsel to the President Kellyanne Conway;
Republican Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Thom Tillis of North Carolina and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
2 hours ago
US reports more than 38,000 cases of covid-19
By Alta Spells
The United States reported at least 38,630 new COVID-19 cases and 410 new virus-related deaths on Sunday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
At least 7 million 420,971 coronavirus infections, including 209,794 deaths, have been recorded so far in the United States.
Totals include cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and other US territories, as well as repatriated cases.
3 hours ago
By CNN Spanish
Check out our coverage of Sunday
here.
coronavirus