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U.S. President Trump In Hospital With Coronavirus Symptoms

By Stefan J. Bos, Special Correspondent Worthy News

(Worthy News) – U.S. President Donald Trump arrived at a famed military hospital Friday after confirming that he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Earlier, Trump, wearing a face mask, gave reporters a thumbs-up as he boarded a helicopter at the White House on his way to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

He also released a video on social networking site Twitter, saying: “I think I’m doing very well, but we’re going to make sure that things work out.” Trump reportedly developed symptoms, including a cough, fever, and lethargy on Friday

Trump added in his short video that “the First Lady is doing very well.”
The ‘Marine One’ helicopter landed near the military hospital late Friday, and Trump was driven to the large complex.

The White House said the visit was precautionary and that Trump would work from the hospital’s presidential suite, which is equipped to allow him to continue his official duties.

He and his wife tested positive for COVID-19 after one of Trump’s closest aides, Hope Hicks, tested positive Thursday for the coronavirus. The Trumps’ youngest child, Barron, 14, has tested negative for the virus.

CORONAVIRUS DIAGNOSE

Hicks was among the highest-ranking people in Trump’s orbit to test positive for the coronavirus. In July, Trump’s national security advisor, Robert O’Brien, tested positive for the coronavirus. Other administration officials have previously been diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Though the risk of severe illness from COVID-19 increases with age, the 74-year-old president was expected to recover fully.

Most people who contract it get well quickly with minimal symptoms. Experts agreed that the next week would be critical in determining the course of Trump’s illness.

Trump’s Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, and his wife, Jill, said they tested negative after encountering Trump at Tuesday’s debate ahead of the November 3 presidential election.

Biden also said he wished the president and the first lady a full recovery and that “this is not a matter of politics.” Biden said it was a “reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously. It is not going away automatically.”

MILD SYMPTOMS

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that Trump “remains in good spirits, has mild symptoms, and has been working throughout the day.”

Shortly before he departed for the hospital, his physician, Dr. Sean Conley, said in a White House memo that Trump had received an experimental antibody cocktail.

News that the president, the first lady, his top aid, and the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee and others have the coronavirus has left the country shaken.

Christian leaders have been praying for the president when authorities claim the coronavirus pandemic claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Americans.

The country also faces deadly shootings, riots, and political battles over the future makeup of the Supreme Court.

DEBATE CONTINUES

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and her husband had coronavirus earlier this year and recovered, according to administration officials.

The Supreme Court was also expected to be a theme during the vice-presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, which will go on as scheduled, organizers said. Both rivals underwent tests for the coronavirus on Friday and tested negative.

Amid the turmoil, world leaders wish President Trump a speedy recovery. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was previously hospitalized with COVID-19 and spent time in the Intensive Care Unit before recovering. “My best wishes to President Trump and the First Lady. Hope they both have a speedy recovery from coronavirus,” he wrote on Twitter.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he and his wife Sara “wish our friends a full and speedy recovery” along with “millions of Israelis.”

Other leaders included Russian President Vladimir Putin, who sent a telegram to his U.S. counterpart. “I am confident that your vital energy, high spirits, and optimism will help you cope with the dangerous virus,” the press service quoted Putin as saying.

NORTH KOREA

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also sent a message to Trump, saying he “sincerely hoped that they would be recovered as soon as possible,” according to the Korean Central News Agency.

There was no official comment from the Chinese government in Beijing, with whom Trump repeatedly clashed over what he consistently called “the China virus.”

But Hu Xijin, the editor of the influential state-affiliated Global Times paper, said the president and first lady “paid the price for his gamble to play down COVID-19”. The editor warned that “it will impose a negative impact on the image of Trump and the U.S.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom also expressed their hopes for a full recovery.

But a French government spokesperson claimed that the diagnosis “demonstrates that the virus spares no one, including those who have shown skepticism.”

The diagnosis of the president came as a setback for Trump’s re-election campaign. The president spent months stressing the importance of reopening the economy and pledging that the nation would overcome the “China plague.”