Trump Takes Coronavirus Test

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Last edited Sat Mar 14, 2020, 01:33 PM - Edit history (6)

Source: CNN

(CNN)President Donald Trump announced Saturday at a press briefing at the White House that he has been tested for coronavirus.

He said he was tested Friday night and also had his temperature taken Saturday before entering the briefing room. Trump said his temperature was normal.

When asked when he would announce the results, he said that the test was sent to a lab and could take a day or two.

The White House doctor also took the temperature of the task force members before the group's meeting today, an official said.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/14/politics/trump-press-conference-coronavirus/index.html?utm_content=2020-03-14T16%3A39%3A25&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNN

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/trump-coronavirus-paid-sick-leave-unemployment-testing

On Saturday, the Australian home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, said he did not become contagious with Covid-19 until three days until after a trip to Washington during which he met Ivanka Trump and attorney general William Barr. The US president's daughter entered self-isolation after Dutton's condition was reported.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/14/coronavirus-trumps-white-house-doctor-says-he-doesnt-need-test/5049602002/

Also on Friday, the White House said in a statement that Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and senior adviser, was working from home after coming into contact with an Australian official who announced he was diagnosed with COVID-19.

https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-discloses-more-trump-exposure-to-coronavirus-but-says-he-wont-be-tested-after-all-134823358.html

[div class"excerpt"]Leana Wen, a former Baltimore City health commissioner, who is now an emergency physician and professor at George Washington University, told Yahoo News on Friday that it is possible that people who have mild symptoms or no symptoms at all could be spread the virus to others.

If Trump is such a carrier, he could be what Wen called a "super-spreader," someone who infects more than two to three people, which the average number infected by a virus carrier.

"There are some people who end up spreading the virus to many more. The more people one is in contact with, the more they could potentially spread the disease," she said.

Wen said the president's delay in getting tested went against basic public health protocols. "The standard public health practice is to test all contacts, so at a time of a public health emergency, when containment is key, everyone should abide by public health principles no matter their position or their title," she said.

[Blue Owl]

1. He cheated as usual

n/t

[mahina]

2. Open book, take home?

[Backseat Driver]

3. LOL - the moronic liar speaks -

If Dr. Fauci says he administered that test, then I'll believe it.

[JDC]

4. That's probably the 15th he's taken.

No way that clown hasn't been tested already. This is just the "formal and for show" version.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. He can get it but not at risk people in California

He also oversaw taking down health posters in Immigration Courtrooms. Over the objections of the judges. He probably didn't personally order it, but Donny Six Words is responsible whether he denies it or not.

[Harker]

30. When he said that anybody that wants a test

can get one, he was likely just repeating what he was told regarding his own family.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. He'll release the test results as soon as their done being audited. nt

[SergeStorms]

22. Good one....

which means he'll never release the results!

[underpants]

7. Results are in ......It is NOT a HOAX

That's is all

[SergeStorms]

23. Oh no, it's still a Democratic hoax....

he's just doing it to keep his doctors and family happy.

[gembaby1]

8. The problem is that...

No one will ever believe anything Trump or his acolytes have to say.

[ashredux]

9. He is sick.....it will be obvious by Monday

[Lonestarblue]

10. We can only hope.

At least if he is quarantined, we will not have to see his ugly face on television for a couple of weeks.

[not_the_one]

14. No, he would have a room set up for constant access to FUX News, with camera.

He obviously wouldn't be able to do any presidentin', so he could concentrate on tweeting and announcing fake news briefings.

He CAN NOT DO WITHOUT the attention. He is a junkie. (in more ways than one...)

[boilinmad]

11. Hilarious...

As if we would believe a single word that he vomits out of his foul mouth.

[flt rsk]

12. He probably stayed up all night to study for the test.

[jayschool2013]

21. He got some smart kid

to take it for him. Of course, who can find one of those in this administration?

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Taking Temperature. That's a good start.

Now how about tax returns along with the COVID-19 test.

[tinrobot]

15. I'm glad he admitted it.

[LudwigPastorius]

16. I'd rather he take a cognitive test at this point.

Because he's been too addled to function in office since, well...day one.

[olddad65]

17. We can only hope......

[Grown2Hate]

18. Fingers crossed! EOM

[earthside]

19. Here is what we will learn ...

It is going to come back as positive for malignant moronavirus.

(And then he'll lie about that and say he passed the test with the highest score of anyone who ever took the test in the history of the world.)

[jayschool2013]

20. His temperature

Barely above freezing, I suspect.

[backtoblue]

24. sent to a lab and could take a day or two.

sent to a lab and could take a day or two.....


Sounds alot like "My taxes are at the IRS and could take a bit...

[zonkers]

25. Like I believe anything he says.

[Blues Heron]

26. Let me guess dr. Sharpie will analyse it?

[Bengus81]

27. LIED once again to Americans

[olddad65]

28. He will not be able to release the results...

He wants to, but it is a matter of his national insecurity.

[Lord Ludd]

29. This time he didn't send a ringer,

like he did all through college.

Daddy Fred paid big bucks for Donny's degree, just like Poppy Bush did for Junior's.