Donald Trump with Melania and her son Barron, last August.Susan Walsh / AP
The son of Melania and Donald Trump tested positive for coronavirus after his parents contracted the disease, although he did not develop symptoms, as reported by the first lady through her Twitter account.
Melania Trump also assures that Barron's tests are already negative.
In a statement
entitled My personal experience with covid-19
, Melania Trump recounts that it was two weeks ago when she received “a diagnosis that many other Americans in our country and other people in the world had already received -positive for coronavirus- ”.
The first lady goes on to say that her bad news was also added to that received by her husband, "our commander in chief of the nation."
In a long letter, Trump's wife, 50, explains how after learning her diagnosis her mind immediately went to her son, Barron, 14 years old.
"It was such a relief when her result came back negative, but like many other parents have thought over the past few months, I couldn't stop thinking about what would happen tomorrow or the day after."
Melania Trump says her fears came true when a new test came back positive.
"Fortunately he is a strong teenager and did not show any symptoms," he says.
"In a way I was grateful that the three of us were going through the same thing at the same time so that we could take care of each other and spend time together," says Trump.
"Since then it has given a negative result."
To all who have reached out - thank you.
Here is my personal experience with COVID-19: https: //t.co/XUysq0KVaY
- Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) October 14, 2020
The 74-year-old president of the United States communicated at dawn on October 2 that both he and the first lady had tested positive for coronavirus and were proceeding to quarantine themselves.
"We will get out of this TOGETHER," wrote the president on the social network.
The news of the disease was the penultimate can of gasoline in an electoral campaign loaded with dynamite just over a month before the elections that will decide who will occupy the White House.
The next day, Trump was admitted to Walter Reed Military Hospital after having two major drops in oxygen.
But the president did not stay hospitalized for long and on Monday, October 5, he left the medical center and from the White House assured that the disease had been "a blessing from God."
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