总统的消息唐纳德·特朗普新冠肺炎检测呈阳性——在淡化了冠状病毒几个月来的威胁-周五引起了对总统的严重关注健康对他连任竞选的影响和最紧迫的问题——关于美国政府的运行。
周五下午晚些时候，当他的病情恶化后被送往医院时，一名高级政府官员宣布不会移交权力。
“总统说了算，”白宫战略传播主任阿里萨·法拉说。
这一天开始时，特朗普惊人地宣布了几十年来对总统健康最严重的威胁之一——对第一夫人梅兰妮·特朗普也是如此，她检测呈阳性——不是在白宫的官方声明中，而是在特朗普自己的一条标志性推特上。
周五上午12点54分，总统证实他和第一夫人感染了病毒，并表示他们将“立即开始我们的隔离和恢复过程”。他继续表达了“我们将一起度过难关”的决心
74岁的总统被认为是病毒引发的严重疾病的高危人群。
特朗普发推特后不久，白宫医生肖恩·康利(Sean Conley)在一夜之间的备忘录中表示，总统和第一夫人保持“健康”，他预计总统将“继续不间断地履行职责”。
2020年10月1日，在华盛顿白宫南草坪，唐纳德·特朗普总统从新泽西州贝德明斯特返回时从海军陆战队一号走出来。
白宫办公厅主任马克·梅多斯星期五早上告诉记者，总统有“轻微的症状”，而且“不仅精神良好，而且精力充沛”。
新:白宫办公厅主任马克·梅多斯说，总统。在今天早上的新冠肺炎诊断后，特朗普“不仅精神好，而且精力充沛”。
"医生们继续监控他和第一夫人的健康。"https://t.co/6wAfiiDinDpic.twitter.com/6uceAHwFF6
——美国广播公司新闻政治(@美国广播公司政治)2020年10月2日
周五下午，白宫新闻秘书凯莉·麦克纳尼(Kayleigh McEnany)表示，特朗普“感觉很好”，但她拒绝详细说明特朗普的“轻度症状”或“确切的测试类型”。
不久后，康利发表了另一份声明，称他是“在唐纳德·特朗普总统的允许下”这样做的。
在聚合酶链反应证实总统的诊断后，作为预防措施，他接受了一剂8克雷根龙多克隆抗体鸡尾酒。他顺利完成了输液。声明称:“除了多克隆抗体，总统还一直在服用锌、维生素D、法莫替丁、褪黑激素和每日一片阿司匹林。”
“截至今天下午，总统仍然疲惫，但精神很好。康利说:“一个专家小组正在对他进行评估，我们将共同向总统和第一夫人提出下一步最佳措施的建议。”。“第一夫人梅兰妮·特朗普仍然健康，只是有轻微的咳嗽和头痛，第一家庭的其他成员今天都很好，非典病毒检测呈阴性。”
没有任何消息表明，如果特朗普丧失能力，是否正在为向副总统迈克·彭斯移交权力做准备。彭斯发言人说星期五早上，彭斯和他的妻子在那天早上检测出新冠肺炎呈阴性。他的医生后来在一份声明中说，他不需要隔离，可以“自由地进行正常活动”。
在今年早些时候发布的总统总体健康评估中，康利博士说总统“仍然健康”。但据记载，总统体重为244磅，超过了被视为肥胖的官方门槛。健康专家表示，肥胖使新冠肺炎人患严重疾病的风险更高。
根据，因为他肥胖，他住院的可能性是不肥胖的人的三倍数据来自疾病控制和预防中心。疾控中心数据还显示，74岁的人住院治疗的次数是18-29岁的五倍，他这个年龄的人的死亡率比18-29岁的人高90倍。
2020年9月30日，明尼苏达州德卢斯，唐纳德·特朗普总统在德卢斯国际机场的竞选集会上发表讲话后，向支持者投掷帽子。
离选举日还有一个多月的时候，总统本人就成了一个流行病统计数据，全国各地的许多人已经开始在一场夺去20多万美国人生命的公共卫生危机中投票。
总统自己诊断的消息是在该国通过新闻泄露得知总统最亲密的助手之一霍普·希克斯也感染了这种病毒几小时后传来的。总统在接受福克斯新闻的肖恩·哈尼蒂采访时证实了希克斯的消息，并透露他和第一夫人正在等待测试结果。
“她检测呈阳性。而我刚刚出去做了个测试。我看看-因为我们花了很多时间。第一夫人也带着一个测试出去了。所以，我们是否隔离，或者我们是否有，我不知道，”特朗普告诉汉尼蒂。
2020年9月30日，在白宫南草坪上，霍普·希克斯(最右边)和他的总统助手们(从左到右)、尼古拉斯·卢纳、丹·斯卡维诺、贾里德·库什纳和斯蒂芬·米勒一起走向海军陆战队一号。
就在周三的前一天，希克斯和总统一起去明尼苏达州参加竞选筹款活动和集会。在那次旅行中，希克斯离总统很近，和他一起乘坐总统直升机和飞机。她被拍到没有戴口罩。
她生病和总统的积极结果也引发了关于有多少白宫工作人员和总统接触过的其他人会受到影响的问题。
特朗普总统本周一直保持着繁忙的竞选日程，在多次集会上发表讲话，数千名总统的粉丝聚集在户外和露天飞机库，许多人没有戴口罩，听总统讲话。
他还参加了周二晚上在克利夫兰举行的第一次大选辩论，与他的民主党对手、前副总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)共用一个舞台。两位候选人没有握手，在舞台上相互间隔超过6英尺，但现在有人质疑拜登是否也感染了病毒。
总统的随行人员在距离辩论地点几个街区外的一家酒店为辩论做准备。参谋长梅多斯以及总统的儿子埃里克和他的妻子劳拉在穿过大厅时没有戴口罩。特朗普的高级顾问和女婿也没有贾里德·库什纳也不是他的竞选经理比尔·斯捷潘。
总统在整个大流行期间都避免戴口罩，尽管他的政府的高级专家建议公众戴口罩，但他嘲笑拜登这样做。
“我不像他那样戴面具。每次你看到他，他都带着面具。他可能在200英尺外说话，他带着我见过的最大的面具出现，”特朗普在周二晚上的辩论中说，并吹嘘他的户外集会有大量表演。
当被问及他是否担心病毒在集会上传播时，特朗普说，“嗯，到目前为止，我们没有任何问题。在外面，差别很大。据专家说。我们在外面做。正如你所看到的，我们有大量的人群，我的意思是，每一个——实际上，24小时通知。乔做圆圈，有三个人在某个地方。”
尚不清楚特朗普和彭斯最后一次在一起是什么时候。副总统星期二说，那天他和总统在椭圆形办公室呆了一段时间，一天前他们一起出现在新闻发布会上。
周二，彭斯与特朗普提名的最高法院法官艾米·科尼·巴雷特(Amy Coney Barrett)一起访问了国会大厦，陪同她会见了参议院多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)。
白宫已经制定了严格的测试协议，旨在将总统与病毒隔离开来。总统定期接受测试，那些与他密切接触的人每天都要接受测试。
官员们引用了一个严格的测试程序来证明总统放弃口罩的决定是正确的，就像他通常做的那样，除了在医院这样的罕见情况下。总统在白宫的大多数助手在工作时都不戴口罩。
甚至在希克斯确诊之前，总统轨道上的几个人已经在几个月前感染了病毒。
早在5月份，副总统彭斯的通信主任凯蒂·米勒(Katie Miller)就成为了第一位已知的病毒检测呈阳性的白宫高级顾问斯蒂芬·米勒(Stephen Miller)。
金伯利·吉尔福伊尔(Kimberly Guilfoyle)与特朗普总统的大儿子小唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump Jr .)有着浪漫的关系，也为竞选团队工作。7月份，他的检测呈阳性。国家安全顾问罗伯特·奥布赖恩也是如此。
赫尔曼·凯恩是总统的政治盟友，也是前总统候选人，他在参加了唐纳德·特朗普总统6月20日在俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨举行的室内集会11天后住院，后来去世。
Trump contracts coronavirus after downplaying risk for months. What next?
The news that PresidentDonald Trumphas tested positive for the COVID-19 -- after playing down thecoronavirusthreat for months -- raised serious concerns on Friday about the president’shealth, the impact on his reelection campaign and most pressing -- questions about the running of the U.S. government.
Late Friday afternoon, as he was being taken to the hospital after his conditioned worsened, a senior administration official put out the word there would be no transfer of power.
"The president is in charge,” said White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farrah.
The day began with the stunning announcement of one of the gravest threats to a president's health in decades -- and to first lady Melania Trump who tested positive as well -- coming first not in an official announcement from the White House -- but from Trump himself in a trademark tweet.
At 12:54 a.m. Friday, the president confirmed he and the first lady had the virus and said they would “begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately.” He went on to express resolve that “We will get through this TOGETHER!”
At age 74, the president is considered to be in a high-risk category for severe illness from the virus.
Not long after Trump's tweet, White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said in a memorandum overnight that the president and first lady remained “well” and that he expected the president would “continue carrying out his duties without disruption.”
President Donald Trump walks from Marine One as he returns from Bedminster, N.J., on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Oct. 1, 2020.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told reporters Friday morning that the president was having "mild symptoms" and was "not only in good spirits but very energetic."
NEW: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows says Pres. Trump is "not only in good spirits but very energetic" following this morning's COVID-19 diagnosis.
"The doctors continue to monitor both his health and the health of the first lady."https://t.co/6wAfiiDinDpic.twitter.com/6uceAHwFF6
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics)October 2, 2020
On Friday afternoon, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Trump was "feeling good" but she declined to elaborate on his what she also described as "mild symptoms" or "exactly what type of tests" Trump has had.
Not long after, Conley put out another statement saying he did so "with the permission of President Donald J. Trump."
Following PCR-confirmation of the President’s diagnosis, as a precautionary measure he received a single 8 gram dose of Regeneron’s polyclonal antibody cocktail. He completed the infusion without incident. In addition to the polyclonal antibodies, the President has been taking zinc, vitamin D, famotidine, melatonin and a daily aspirin," the statement said.
"As of this afternoon the President remains fatigued but in good spirits. He’s being evaluated by a team of experts, and together we’ll be making recommendations to the President and First Lady in regards to next best steps," Conley said. "First Lady Melania Trump remains well with only a mild cough and headache, and the remainder of the First Family are well and tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 today."
There was no word on whether preparations were being made for any transfer of power to Vice President Mike Pence should Trump become incapacitated. A Pence spokesmansaidFriday morning that Pence and his wife tested negative for COVID-19 that morning. His physician later said in a statement that he does not need to quarantine and is "free to go about his normal activities."
In an assessment of the president’s overall health released earlier this year, Dr. Conley said the president "remains healthy.” But with a documented weight of 244 pounds, the president passed the official threshold of being considered obese. Health experts have said that obesity puts people at higher risk of a severe illness from COVID-19.
Because he is obese, he is three times more likely to be hospitalized than someone who is not obese, according todatafrom the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDCdataalso shows that 74-year-olds are hospitalized five times more than 18 to 29 year olds, and the death rate for people of his age is 90 times higher compared to 18 to 29 year olds.!callout mobile=[false] url=[https://abcnews.go.com/US/president-trump-lady-test-positive-covid-19/story?id=73380448] text=[MORE: Trump COVID updates: President, first lady test positive for coronavirus]/>
President Donald Trump throws hats to supporters after speaking at a campaign rally at Duluth International Airport, Sept. 30, 2020, in Duluth, Minn.
The president became a pandemic statistic himself a little more than a month left before Election Day and as many across the country have already begun casting their votes amid a public health crisis that has claimed over 200,000 American lives.
Word of the president’s own diagnosis came just hours after the country learned via a news leak that Hope Hicks, one of the president’s closest aides, had also contracted the virus. The president confirmed the news of Hicks in an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity and revealed that he and the first lady were awaiting test results.
“She tested positive. And I just went out with a test. I'll see what -- because we spend a lot of time. And the first lady just went out with a test also. So, whether we quarantine, or whether we have it, I don't know,” Trump told Hannity.
Hope Hicks, far right, is seen walking to Marine One on the White House's South Lawn, Sept. 30, 2020, with fellow presidential aides, left to right, Nicholas Luna, Dan Scavino, Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller.
Hicks was with the president just one day earlier on Wednesday when he traveled to Minnesota for a campaign fundraiser and rally. On that trip, Hicks was in close proximity to the president, traveling with him aboard the presidential helicopter and plane. She was photographed not wearing a mask.
Her getting sick and the president’s positive results also raised questions about how many members of the White House staff and others who the president with whom the president had been in contact would be affected.
President Trump has maintained a busy campaign schedule this week, speaking at multiple rallies at which thousands of the president’s fans have assembled outside and in open-air airplane hangars, many without masks, to hear the president speak.
He also participated Tuesday night in the first general election debate in Cleveland, sharing the stage with his Democratic opponent and former Vice President Joe Biden. The candidates did not shake hands and were spaced more than 6 feet apart from one another on the stage, but there are now questions about whether Biden was also exposed to the virus.
Members of the president's entourage prepared for the debate at a hotel a few blocks away from the debate site. Chief of Staff Meadows, as well as the president's son Eric and his wife Lara, did not wear masks as they walked through the lobby. Neither did Trump's senior adviser and son-in-lawJared Kushnernor his campaign manager Bill Stepien.
The president, who has eschewed wearing a face mask throughout the pandemic despite the advice of his administration’s top experts that the general public do so, has mocked Biden for doing so.
“I don't wear masks like him. 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,” Trump said at Tuesday night’s debate and bragged about the large showings for his outdoor rallies.
Asked if he had concerns about the virus spreading at his rallies, Trump said, “Well, so far, we've had no problem whatsoever. It's outside, that’s a big difference. According to the experts. We do them outside. We have tremendous crowds as you see, I mean, every -- and literally, on 24 hours notice. And Joe does the circles and has three people some place.”
It was unclear when Trump and Pence were last together. The vice president said Tuesday he had spent time with the president in the Oval Office that day, and a day before they appeared together at a news conference.
On Tuesday, Pence visited the Capitol with Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, accompanying her for a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The White House has strenuous testing protocols in place designed to insulate the president from the virus. The president is tested on a regular basis and those who come into close contact with him get tested on a daily basis.
Officials have cited a rigorous testing program in justifying the president’s decision to forego a mask, as he usually does except in rare settings like hospitals. Most of the president’s aides at the White House do not wear masks while at work.
Even before Hicks' diagnosis, several people in the president’s orbit had caught the virus in months’ prior.
Back in May, Vice President Pence’s communications director, Katie Miller, who is married to White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, became the first known senior member of the White House staff to test positive for the virus.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is in a romantic relationship with the President Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. and also works for the campaign, tested positive in July. So too did National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien.
Herman Cain, a political ally of the president’s and a former presidential candidate, was hospitalized 11 days after he attended President Donald Trump's indoor rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 20 and later died.
