Trump’s Covid-19 Signs Are Mentioned to Be ‘Very Regarding’

At Walter Reed, doctors gave Mr. Trump remdesivir, an antiviral drug that has speeded recovery for some coronavirus patients, and gave him a second dose on Saturday. In another statement released after 9 p.m., Dr. Conley that Mr. Trump remains “fever-free and without additional oxygen” with a saturation level of 96 to 98 percent. “Although the team is not out of the woods yet, it remains cautiously optimistic,” he said.

The outbreak infected a third Republican senator on Saturday when Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson reported positive testing, as did former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who was preparing Mr Trump for his campaign debate on Tuesday. Nicholas F. Luna, the manager of the Oval Office operations, also tested positive, a administration official said Saturday night. Within just under 48 hours, the president, his wife, campaign manager, party leader, senior adviser, assistant, former adviser, debating coach, and three Republican senators along with at least three White House reporters tested positive for the virus.

The White House medical division was investigating Mr Trump’s announcement of the appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court last weekend as a likely source of the virus’s spread. More than half a dozen people who attended the event on September 26 or flew to a rally in Pennsylvania with the President of Air Force One later that evening have now tested positive.

Two of the three Senators, Mike Lee from Utah and Thom Tillis from North Carolina, who now tested positive for the virus, were at the Barrett’s announcement and were members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will review their nomination, further complicating confirmation action As Mr Trump has emphasized, speed limits and a wafer-thin majority are already being tested before the election.

Mr Johnson, the third Senator who is now infected, was absent because he was quarantined from previous exposure to someone with the virus. He came out of 14 days of quarantine after testing negative and returned to Washington on Tuesday, his office said but attended lunch with other Senate Republicans who took him to the same room with Mr. Lee and Mr. Tillis brought. He was tested again on Friday and it came back positive.

If all three Republicans couldn’t vote, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader from Kentucky, would not have enough support to get Judge Barrett’s endorsement because two moderate Republican senators, Susan Collins from Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, have already done so have said they refuse to set up a new judiciary before the election.

Even when Mr McConnell said Saturday that the entire chamber would not meet as planned next week, South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and chairman of the Judiciary Committee issued a statement saying the panel would be with the Plans continue to meet on October 12 to consider Judge Barrett’s nomination.

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