President Donald Trump Takes Coronavirus Test Again Out of 'Curiosity' and Tests Negative

Throughout Thursday’s press briefing at the White Home, President Donald Trump announced that he had been re-tested for coronavirus (COVID-19) and tested unfavorable.

“I did take a check that just got here out. … I went to work. I didn't await it, nevertheless it took 14 minutes or one thing to provide you with the conclusion. … So that's the second one. I feel I took it actually out of curiosity to see how shortly it labored and quick it worked,” Trump, 73, explained.

“And it’s quite a bit simpler. I’ve carried out them both. And the second one is far more nice,” he added.

White Home Physician Sean P. Conley explained in a memorandum obtained by PEOPLE earlier than the briefing that Trump is “wholesome and with out signs.”

“This morning, the President was tested again for COVID-19, utilizing a brand new, speedy point-of-care check functionality. He is wholesome and without signs. Sample collection took only one minute, and results have been reported again in 15 minutes. The President tested damaging for COVID-19.”

Trump first took the check in March.

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Conley explained within the March memorandum relating to the check: “Final night time after an in-depth discussion with the President relating to COVID-19 testing, he elected to proceed. This night I acquired affirmation that the check is damaging.”

The statement added, “One week after having dinner with the Brazilian delegation in Mar-a-Lago, the President stays symptom-free. I've been in every day contact with the CDC and White Home Coronavirus Process Pressure, and we are encouraging the implementation of all their greatest practices for publicity discount and transmission mitigation.”

PEOPLE previously reported that Trump “briefly got here in touch” with Fabio Wajngarten, the communications director for Bolsonaro, who confirmed symptoms three days after assembly with the president at a diplomatic dinner in Palm Seashore, Florida.

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As for what it was like taking the first test, Trump informed reporters on March 17: “ not one thing I need to do each day, I can inform you that.”

“It’s just a little little bit of — good docs in the White Home, nevertheless it’s a check. It’s a check, it’s a medical check,” he continued. “Nothing nice about it.”

Talking at the similar coronavirus briefing, Adm. Brett Giroir, an assistant secretary for Well being and Human Providers, stated the check required a Q-tip-style swab “that’s put behind the nostril, all the best way to the back of the throat” to the nasopharyngeal region. In accordance to USA In the present day, that’s the place the virus typically multiplies.

The pattern is then sent for testing.

News of Trump’s second check comes after it was revealed on Tuesday that between 100,000 and 240,000 people could die in America from the novel coronavirus pandemic, in line with the out there models and knowledge.

The height, in this timeline, will hit on April 15 — with a lessening tail of dying and infection stretching into mid-June.

This assessment was, the White Home’s health specialists careworn, still only a projection. And it was one that was shifting by the day, as well being care staff, scientific researchers and everyday individuals all ramped up their very own efforts to sluggish and treat new infections, including by training social distancing.

The final demise toll might be decrease. The new virus, which emerged solely months ago, was not but absolutely understood. Modeling out what it will do to individuals was nonetheless solely an informed guess.

Even so, stated Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading infectious illness professional and member of President Trump‘s coronavirus process drive: “This can be a number that we need to anticipate.”

“I would like each American to be ready for the arduous days that lie forward,” Trump informed reporters at Tuesday night time’s coronavirus briefing, using a few of his starkest language up to now a few virus he had previously downplayed.

On the peak, more than two thousand individuals have been projected to die every day from a respiratory sickness.

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That would nonetheless change, though.

“That is the thing that we need to anticipate, however that doesn’t mean that that’s what we’re going to simply accept,” Dr. Fauci advised reporters. “We need to do a lot, a lot better than that.”

Fauci and others on the duty drive, along with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, urged everybody to proceed to comply with the federal social distancing tips which were extended by way of April: Keep house as much as attainable, keep away from gatherings of more than 10 individuals and follow common hygiene such nearly as good hand-washing and coughing and sneezing into your elbow.

As of Thursday, there at the moment are no less than 243,729 confirmed instances of coronavirus in america, probably the most worldwide.

At the very least 6,164 individuals in the U.S. have died from coronavirus-related illness.

As details about the coronavirus pandemic rapidly modifications, PEOPLE is dedicated to providing the newest knowledge in our protection. A few of the info in this story might have modified after publication. For the newest on COVID-19, readers are inspired to use online assets from CDC, WHO, and local public health departments. To help present docs and nurses on the entrance strains with life-saving medical assets, donate to Direct Relief here.

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