Hospitalization one month before the presidential election.

United States President Donald Trump spent his first night in the hospital and tweeted that he was fine.

But we did not know, Saturday, October 3, the exact nature of his symptoms and the origin of the contagion.

Its contamination comes as a growing number of Republicans have announced that they have also contracted Covid-19.

The president is currently not receiving supplementation with oxygen and has not had a fever for 24 hours, said Saturday, the White House doctor, Sean Conley, ensuring that the leader was "very well".

In exactly one month, on November 3, Americans will vote to decide between the 74-year-old incumbent president and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, but the campaign already disrupted by the pandemic was shattered by the Republican's hospitalization.

The head of state's trips have been canceled, his campaign manager has also been contaminated according to Politico, and uncertainty hangs over the next televised debates, in particular the one which is supposed to pit their running mates, Vice President Mike Pence and the Democratic Senator Kamala Harris Wednesday.

The White House is linked to multiple contaminations.

The list of infected Donald Trump's relatives is growing: his wife Melania, his advisor Hope Hicks, his campaign manager Bill Stepien, three Republican senators, and former advisor Kellyanne Conway.

Not to mention three accredited journalists.

Fever, cough, nasal congestion ...

Last Saturday, dozens of guests flocked to the Presidency's gardens and interior living rooms for the appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to a Supreme Court seat.

Cameras captured a host of handshakes and hugs, with most of the guests omitting masks, a practice evident among Republicans as a mark of loyalty.

Since the announcement of his positive test on the night of Thursday to Friday, Donald Trump has tweeted twice: an 18-second video message, Friday afternoon, in which he announced that he was going to be hospitalized at the military hospital of Walter Reed in the suburbs of Washington, and another, on the night of Friday to Saturday: "I think it's fine! Thank you all. LOVE !!!"

Going welI, I think!

Thank you to all.

LOVE !!!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2020

According to the White House, he suffers from "fatigue" and "mild" symptoms.

This would include, according to several American media, fever, cough and nasal congestion.

Donald Trump was last seen getting into the presidential helicopter and alighting at Walter Reed.

Dressed in a suit, he walked in his usual slow step, and wore a black mask.

The tenant of the White House received two treatments on Friday, according to press releases signed by the presidential doctor: first the injection of an experimental cocktail of synthetic antibodies, developed by the company Regeneron and which gave preliminary results promising in clinical trials.

Donald Trump is well aware of the treatment, which the boss of biotech had presented to him in February and in which the government has invested more than $ 600 million.

The billionaire had retained that he would treat "better and faster".

Then he received the first dose of the antiviral remdesivir, the first drug authorized against severe forms of Covid-19, and which doctors believe is also effective against milder forms.

Hydroxychloroquine, which the president took preventively for a while, is no longer part of his treatments.

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As it is not known when Donald Trump was infected, it is not known if he was contagious during his debate last Tuesday night against Joe Biden, in Cleveland.

The two men spent 90 minutes on the same stage: the distance between them probably prevented contamination by the large droplets projected when speaking or spitting, but not necessarily by the micro-droplets so light that they remain suspended in the air. air, and the propagation of which depends on ventilation.

Joe Biden, 77, had two tests on Friday, and both were negative, but it's possible the virus was in him and not yet detectable.

The incubation period for Covid-19 is on average five days, which means that the symptoms could not appear until Sunday in the Democrat, if he had been infected on Tuesday.

Despite the countless wishes for a speedy recovery addressed to Donald Trump, including Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Democrats were extremely critical of the negligence of the White House, accused of having staked everything on tests in defiance of basic health guidelines.

With AFP

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