After being offered a virtual walkabout with his supporters on Sunday, behind the windows of official cars, the American president will be released from the hospital for good on Monday.
"I will be leaving the excellent Walter Reed Medical Center at 6.30 p.m. (local time, 0.30 a.m. French time)," said Donald Trump in a tweet, who claims to feel "really good".
“Do not be afraid of the Covid, he urged.
Don't let it rule your life.
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"His health continues to improve," assured his doctor Sean Conley earlier today on Fox News.
Donald Trump had been in care since Friday evening at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, near Washington, after testing positive for Covid-19.
"Based on his incredible progress […], we are still optimistic that he will be able to come out (Monday), but the decision will not be taken until later today," he explained.
This hospitalization, at first, was presented as preventive.
Then doubt arose as to the real state of health of the American president.
By the treatment that would be administered to him, but also by the contradictory messages sent since his hospitalization to the American population.
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The doctors had thus ended up conceding that Donald Trump had had a high fever as well as two episodes of drop in his oxygen level.
The methods of communication of the White House, which ensures that Donald Trump stays at work, may also have been puzzling after the publication of two photos showing him on two different desks in his room, but which in reality had been taken ten minutes away. interval.
Sunday evening, his doctor said that Donald Trump was feeling good, while evoking temporary drops in form.
“Since our last point, his condition has improved significantly.
As often with a patient, there are ups and downs, and in particular when he is followed 24 hours a day, ”Sean Conley then detailed.
By offering himself a surprise outing on Sunday for his drive around the hospital, Donald Trump has sparked a new controversy.
Although masked, some wonder on the other side of the Atlantic as to the need to get a patient sick with Covid out in an armored car with closed windows, evoking the risks incurred by the secret service agents who accompanied.
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The spokesperson for the presidency Kayleigh McEnany has assured that suitable huts have been taken and that "the exit has been validated by the medical team as safe".
This Monday, she let it be known that she in turn had just tested positive.
“After having been systematically tested negative for Covid-19, every day since Thursday, I have tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, without feeling any symptoms,” she tweeted, specifying that she was in quarantine.
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- Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) October 5, 2020