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Trump wanted to rip open shirt to show Superman t-shirt when leaving Walter Reed: report

October 11, 2020

President Trump considered staging his own Clark Kent moment as he exited last week from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center by ripping open a button-down to reveal a Superman T-shirt underneath, according to The New York Times.

The Times reported on Saturday that during several phone calls from inside the hospital last weekend, Trump shared the idea of appearing frail when he emerged from the facility then exposing the Superman t-shirt underneath his top layer, which he described as a symbol of strength, according to sources with knowledge of the conversations.

Trump reportedly spoke about the idea on multiple phone calls. In the end, the president did not going along with the move.

The report from the Times came on the same day Trump made his first public appearance on Saturday since returning to the White House from Walter Reed on Monday after a three-night stay following his COVID-19

Trump returns from Walter Reed, White House backs FDA vaccine guidelines

October 8, 2020

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The White House has reportedly backed away from a battle with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which has been advancing a timeline for a coronavirus vaccine that suggested an approval wouldn’t happen before Election Day.

The FDA has said it will need two months of observation in late-stage trials of any coronavirus vaccine in order to consider an emergency use authorization — an objective that conflicted with President Donald Trump’s desire to have an inoculation by early November. However, the White House signed off on the new guidelines Tuesday afternoon, backing away from a potential standoff that had worried health experts.

Trump, fresh from a stint in the hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19, re-ignited the political debate over a vaccine timeline, putting him at odds with the FDA. In a video Monday evening, Trump also said that “vaccines are coming, momentarily” — even as FDA guidelines suggest

The Scene at Walter Reed as Trump Supporters Waited for Him to Go Home

October 6, 2020

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Samuel Corum/Getty Images Supporters of President Donald Trump gather Sunday outside of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after the president was admitted for treatment of COVID-19.

His doctors might still have cause for concern and his critics might still be outraged and his poll numbers might still be dropping — but to the dozens of Donald Trump faithful who flocked to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday, everything seemed like it was going to be fine.

Better than fine, actually. Great again.

Tracey Armah, a Black cashier from Bethesda, Maryland, sported American flags under both arms and did not wear a mask. “I’m here to support Donald Trump as president because I think he’s the best president ever,” she told PEOPLE.

“I can support who I want to support. It has nothing to do with race,” she said. “Just because you’re Black doesn’t mean you can’t like

Fresh out of Walter Reed, Trump compares Covid to the flu. Experts say he’s flat wrong.

October 6, 2020

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WASHINGTON — In a comparison that is disputed by public health experts, President Donald Trump on Tuesday likened the coronavirus to the seasonal flu and said we can learn to live with Covid-19.

“Flu season is coming up! Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu,” tweeted Trump, who has Covid-19 and returned to the White House on Monday after three days in Walter Reed hospital for treatment. “Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!”

The number of deaths from the flu cited by Trump is misleading and in recent years has been far fewer.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 22,000 people in the U.S. died from the flu during the last flu season from

Trump returns to White House downplaying virus that hospitalized him at Walter Reed

October 6, 2020

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More than a dozen White House officials have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent days, a steadily increasing total that grew again Monday to include press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. How the return of an infected president to such a setting could be managed safely was one of several questions left unanswered Monday as Trump’s medical team briefed reporters about his condition.

“We’ve worked with our infectious-disease experts to make some recommendations for how to keep everything safe down at the White House,” Trump’s doctor Sean Conley said after describing the president’s condition as improving, though he said Trump was “not out of the woods yet.”

Conley declined to describe what specific steps would be made to ensure a safe environment at a building that doubles as a personal residence and a government office while the president remains contagious, which could be for several more days at least.

“I wish

Doctors slam Trump’s drive to greet supporters outside Walter Reed hospital

October 5, 2020

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In a video posted via Twitter on Sunday, Trump said he would “pay a little surprise to some of the great patriots that we have out on the street.”
Shortly thereafter, the presidential motorcade drove by the perimeter of the Walter Reed National Medical Center, with Trump seen through the window of an SUV wearing a face covering and waving to supporters.
“Traveling in a car with several staff members while still in isolation also poses a risk of infecting those other exposed passengers. There was no obvious justification for this action,” Michael Baker, an epidemiologist at the University of Otago in Wellington, New Zealand, told CNBC via email.

a passenger seat of a car: US President Trump waves from the back of a car outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on Ocotber 4, 2020.

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US President Trump waves from the back of a car outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on Ocotber 4, 2020.

LONDON — President Donald Trump on Sunday briefly ventured outside Walter Reed hospital in

Days after coronavirus hospitalization, Trump briefly leaves Walter Reed to salute supporters | News

October 5, 2020

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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Two days after being hospitalized with COVID-19, President Donald Trump declared, “I get it,” in a message to the nation Sunday before briefly leaving the hospital to salute supporters from his motorcade, a move that again showed his willingness to disregard basic precautions to contain the virus that has killed more than 209,000 Americans.

Hours earlier, Trump’s medical team reported that his blood oxygen level dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that they gave him a steroid typically only recommended for the very sick. The doctors also said his health is improving and that he could be discharged as early as Monday.

White House doctors: President Trump's blood oxygen level dropped twice recently

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s blood oxygen level dropped suddenly twice in recent days, but he “has continued to improve” sinc…

“It’s been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about COVID,” Trump said, standing in his hospital

Trump’s drive outside Walter Reed hospital criticized by Secret Service members, doctors

October 5, 2020

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A growing number of Secret Service agents have been concerned about the president’s seeming indifference to the health risks they face when traveling with him in public, and a few reacted with outrage to the trip, asking how Trump’s desire to be seen outside of his hospital suite justified the jeopardy to agents protecting the president. The president’s coronavirus diagnosis has already brought new scrutiny to his lax approach to social distancing, as public health officials scramble to trace those he may have exposed at large in-person events.

“He’s not even pretending to care now,” said one agent after the president’s jaunt outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

“Where are the adults?” said a former Secret Service member.

They spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution.

White House spokesman Judd Deere defended the outing, telling reporters that “appropriate precautions were taken in the execution of

Trump Gets Experimental COVID Tx, Now at Walter Reed

October 5, 2020

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President Trump, who announced he tested positive for COVID-19 early Friday morning, was headed to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the late afternoon for tests and possibly treatment.

Bloomberg reported that Trump would be staying at Walter Reed for “the next few days,” citing a statement from the White House.

An earlier statement from White House physician Sean Conley, DO, said the president had received “a single 8 gram dose of Regeneron’s polyclonal antibody cocktail,” which was completed “without incident.”

Regeneron had released topline results for its investigational REGN-COV2 antibody cocktail on Tuesday: the phase I/II/III trial showed the drug “reduced viral load and the time to alleviate symptoms in non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19,” as well as showing positive trends towards reducing medical visits.

But the product has not received FDA approval emergency use authorization yet, making it truly investigational. Some physicians on Twitter were puzzled that the

Infectious Trump briefly leaves Walter Reed to greet fans as confusion continues over his health

October 5, 2020

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Adding to the confusion about his status, Trump briefly left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda to wave to supporters from a motorcade, after releasing a video on Twitter thanking people who had gathered outside the facility.

“We’re getting great reports from the doctors,” Trump said in the video before promising a “little surprise” to his supporters. “It’s been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about covid.”

At a news conference earlier Sunday, Trump’s medical team tried to clear up the muddled picture it had created the previous day when White House doctor Sean Conley falsely suggested that Trump had not been given supplemental oxygen.

But Conley continued to avoid directly answering specific questions about Trump’s health Sunday, even as he revealed that the president had been given dexamethasone, a steroid that is typically reserved for severely ill coronavirus patients needing oxygen. Conley openly admitted to

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