Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) (SARS-CoV-2) [2020]

What about bleach? Or intense UV? I hear those kill the virus.

I saw a meme of a photoshopped pic of the WH with a tanker plane dropping a load of water over it. But the plane was edited with "Clorox" on the fuselage.


Just got an alert, Trump will "head to" Walter Reed.

That is after taking the Regeneron monoclonal antibody cocktail injection.

Is he walking to the helicopter or being taken out of the WH on the gurney?

It's suppose to be a "precautionary measure."

OK, so he can have probably a team of doctors watching over him round the clock.
 
Unfortunately he may have been infectious at the debate, where he was screaming in Biden's direction for 90 minutes.
doubt he cares..... Wonder why politics now has become insults and more insults.

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Relying on testing to ward off COVID put Trump White House at risk

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/r...vid-put-trump-white-house-at-risk/ar-BB19FlE5

(Reuters) - Early in the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump put his faith in a toaster-sized machine that could spit out test results in a matter of minutes.

In late March, Trump hailed the launch of Abbott Laboratories’ ID NOW test at a Rose Garden event and embraced its widespread use at the White House to keep the deadly virus at bay. The president often skipped his own administration’s public health recommendations on mask wearing and social distancing, explaining that “everyone’s tested” around him using the Abbott device.

His strategy was no match for the virus.

“The reliance on a rapid test, with its limitations, unfortunately gave the White House and its staff a false sense of security that they were in control of the virus,” said William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

“You cannot rely on that test to create a barrier between you and the virus,” he said, adding that people “have to wear masks, do social distancing and not go to all these rallies.”

While rapid tests can help contain the spread of a highly contagious virus, they were not designed to be used in isolation. A negative result merely captures a snapshot in time and doesn’t guard against infection soon after. And a person may be infectious for days before the amount of virus in their body registers positive on a test.

Krutika Kuppalli, an assistant professor and expert on infectious diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, said not enough is known about how these rapid tests perform in people who are asymptomatic.

Trump was playing with fire and it was really a matter of time before something like this was going to happen,” she said. “Even if Trump had been around someone who was sick, wearing a mask could have prevented him from getting the virus.”
 
Tracing Trump's movements: A timeline of the days leading up to his COVID diagnosis

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...leading-up-to-his-covid-diagnosis/ar-BB19F7pf

An ABC News review of the president's public calendar in the days leading up to his diagnosis, which he revealed early Friday morning in a tweet, shows him face-to-face with reporters, side-by-side with Gold Star families and hobnobbing with donors -- frequently without social distancing or wearing masks. This follows a pattern for his events throughout the pandemic.

"Given the sheer volume of potential contacts of the president over the days ahead of his diagnosis, public health officials should be very worried about the emergence of a super-spreading event," said John Brownstein, Ph.D., a Harvard epidemiologist and ABC News contributor, referring to an instance in which the number of cases transmitted is disproportionately higher than normal.

On Friday, before the president was taken to Walter Reed Medical Center, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Trump was already experiencing "mild symptoms," suggesting that the president may have been infected days earlier, Brownstein said -- and presenting the possibility that he may have transmitted the disease to others while asymptomatic. Transmission has been known to occur two to three days before patients show symptoms, if any.

"As the president was likely infectious by Tuesday if not earlier, all those that have been in close proximity from that time should be in quarantine regardless of a negative test at this time," Brownstein said. "Those who have been in contact with the president must proceed with extreme caution."

Here is ABC News' attempt to trace Trump's public contacts over the past week:

Saturday, Sept. 26

A White House ceremony at which Judge Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court is quickly emerging as a possible super-spreader event, Brownstein said, with at least five attendees now having tested positive.

Hours later, the president traveled to a campaign rally in Middletown, Pennsylvania, where several thousand supporters greeted Air Force One at an outdoor hangar. The president was joined on Air Force One by White House adviser Hope Hicks, who tested positive for the virus on Thursday.

Sunday, Sept. 27

On Sunday, Trump hosted Gold Star Families in the East Room of the White House, an indoor setting where the president, several senior advisers and Pentagon leaders were photographed without masks in close proximity.

Monday, Sept. 28

During an impromptu event on the South Lawn of the White House, Trump summoned reporters while he was checking out the Lordstown Motors 2021 endurance electric pickup truck, an opportunity for him to focus on the return of manufacturing to Ohio, a key battleground state.

The president was joined by White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and three Lordstown employees, including CEO Steve Burns – none of whom wore masks or observed social distancing.

In the afternoon, the president returned to the Rose Garden for a press conference updating Americans about his administration's coronavirus response, which featured several senior administration officials, including Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, and Adm. Brett Giroir, the administration's testing czar. Some attendees wore masks, but not the president. While Giroir awaited the president, he donned a mask, but removed it when it was his turn to speak.

Tuesday, Sept. 29

The day of the highly anticipated first presidential debate, Trump held no public events until departing the White House for the event venue in Cleveland. Once on stage, the president jousted with former vice president Joe Biden over his administration's response to the coronavirus and mocked Biden's use of a mask.

"I don't wear masks like him," Trump said. "Every time you see him, he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from it, and he shows up with the biggest mask I've seen."

The president has repeatedly claimed that his outdoor rallies pose little threat to attendees. During Wednesday's debate, he said there have been "no negative effects" on public health traced back to his rallies.

In the audience, a pool reporter noted that several of the president's guests -- including members of his family -- arrived wearing masks, but took them off once seated. The reporter added that a Cleveland Clinic physician attempted to approach the Trump family to ask them to wear masks, but was rebuffed by an unidentified campaign staffer.

Andrea Pacetti, a Cleveland Clinic spokeswoman, confirmed to ABC News that a "physician did offer audience members masks, but some did not adhere to the requirement." She declined to answer questions about why the rules were not enforced.

"While the debate participants were over 6 feet apart, the limited mask wearing and prolonged duration of exposure through heated conversation, we should be deeply worried about the extent of cases that are to come," Brownstein said.

According to Cleveland Clinic, members of Trump and Biden's traveling parties were tested by their respective campaigns before arriving on campus, and received negative tests. All attendees, members of the press and others officials at the venue ahead of Tuesday night received negative PCR tests from the Clinic to gain entry to the hall, which had a maximum capacity of 300 people for the debate.

Chris Wallace, the debate moderator, said on Friday afternoon the two candidates and their campaigns were not subject to the stringent testing rules set out by the Cleveland Clinic, describing their testing protocol as "an honor system."

Wednesday, Sept. 30

The president departed the White House on Wednesday afternoon for Minnesota, where he attended a fundraiser at the suburban Minneapolis home of Cambria CEO Marty Davis before jetting north to Duluth for another crowded campaign rally with thousands of mostly mask-less supporters.

Three Republican lawmakers -- Reps. Jim Hagedorn, Tom Emmer and Pete Stauber -- traveled aboard Air Force One to and from Duluth. On Friday, all three said they received coronavirus tests from the House Attending Physician's office and, as of Friday afternoon, were awaiting results. The Minnesota Republicans voted in person on the House floor Friday, despite recent interactions with White House staff.

On the return trip to Washington, Hope Hicks, a senior aide to the president, fell ill aboard Air Force One. Unable to deplane, Hicks isolated herself in a cabin. She tested positive for coronavirus the next day.

Thursday, Oct. 1

The president's busy week of travel continued Thursday with a visit to his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., for a private fundraiser. After Hicks' positive test -- not announced publicly but leaked to reporters Thursday evening -- several White House aides decided not to travel with the president, according to The Associated Press.

Just over 100 supporters attended the high-priced, closed-door fundraiser Thursday afternoon, according to sources familiar with the event.

Sources said Trump and his senior staff were aware Hicks had tested positive earlier in the day for the coronavirus. One source said Trump did not come within 6 feet of guests and guests themselves were tested prior to joining the president. The senior aides who joined the president on his trip had been in close contact to Hicks as well, according to the sources. According to social media posts, very few attendees at the event were spotted wearing masks.

Friday, Oct. 2

Shortly after midnight on Friday morning, Trump tweeted that he and the First Lady had tested positive for the virus. Both of them said they felt mild symptoms on Friday, suggesting the virus may have been in their system for several days, according to Brownstein.

"With a diagnosis on October 1, we can presume that the president was likely infected three to five days ahead -- though possibly longer -- pushing the timeline to trace contacts all the way into the prior weekend," Brownstein said. "This places a massive public health burden to identify and test contacts with the hope of identifying the source."
 
So with Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) all out with COVID that sort of tosses the whole supreme court nomination out the window. Two of them serve on the judiciary committee that needs to approve the candidate for the floor vote, and now instead of a 12/10 panel it's 10/10 and the Senate isn't under the republicans control. (You can't remote vote in the Senate, they're old fashioned and there is a law saying you need to be physically present to vote)

This is getting weird, really fricking weird.
 
I'm not one for spreading of false information, but the Doctors need to tell Individual Number One that he caught COVID-19 from Social Media -- Twitter and Facebook.
 
So it now looks like Trump was infected before the debate
everyone had to get tested for covid before entry to the debate
the trump team refused to (most likely cause they knew they were positive) said oh you can take our gentlemans word we got tested today we are good, let us in
perhaps they were hoping they could infect biden?

every day trump still manages to surprise me with his selfcentered arseholeness

Also what happened last november with his hospital visit, seems it may of been heart issues .... yes I know hes the fittest president ever (in his words), but since I found out hes actually a few cm shorter than he saiz, Im like doubting everything he has said

edit:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris...rived-at-debate-too-late-for-coronavirus-test
seems I lied when I said trump refused
 
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President Trump has told supporters that he had "learned a lot about Covid" in the past few days.

"I learnt it by really going to school. This is the real school, this isn’t the let’s-read-the-book school," he said in a message released just before his controversial drive-by outside the Walter Reed Medical Center, where he is being treated

"And I get it, and I understand it. And it’s a very interesting thing and I’m going to be letting you know all about it.

"In the meantime we love the US and we love what’s happening."

We love what's happening? :-?

~37.000 new cases.
 
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