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posted by takyon on Friday October 02 2020, @05:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the very-busy-contact-tracers dept.

[20201002_054327 UTC: Added c|net link and quote.--martyb]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849

Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!

A report from c|net adds:

White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said in a memorandum late Thursday that the president and first lady were "both well at this time, and they plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence."

The announcement of the president and first lady's positive coronavirus test results came just hours after the revelation that top White House aide Hope Hicks had tested positive for the virus as well. The president indicated in an earlier tweet that he and the first lady had begun the quarantine process.

Hope Hicks, who has been working so hard without even taking a small break, has just tested positive for Covid 19. Terrible! The First Lady and I are waiting for our test results. In the meantime, we will begin our quarantine process!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020

President Donald Trump tweets he and first lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19

Trump tests positive for COVID-19 after his adviser and confidant Hope Hicks tested positive for the coronavirus

c0lo adds: Dow futures plunge more than 500 points after Trump says he tested positive for coronavirus


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Friday October 02 2020, @03:12PM (4 children)

    by RamiK (1813) on Friday October 02 2020, @03:12PM (#1059919)

    Maybe. The antiviral people claim their stuff will work that way, but there haven't been any experiments prior to this to prove that they're correct, because just about nobody detects it early enough.

    Where you get that from? COVID19 ward staffers get swabs just as much as the president if not more and are treated following the same procedures.

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday October 02 2020, @05:40PM (3 children)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 02 2020, @05:40PM (#1060003) Journal

    I haven't heard of any reported trials of antivirals being tried during the early stages of the disease (before symptoms appear). If you have, I'd like a reference to them. During the later stages they aren't that effective, even though they help a bit.

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    • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Friday October 02 2020, @07:23PM (2 children)

      by RamiK (1813) on Friday October 02 2020, @07:23PM (#1060057)

      I haven't heard of any reported trials of antivirals

      I was commenting on "because just about nobody detects it early enough".

      I should think it's obvious why you won't find remdesivir studies for pre/asymptomatic exposure while the shortages continue... But regardless, the REGN-COV2 prevention trials just cleared phase 3: https://investor.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/regenerons-regn-cov2-antibody-cocktail-reduced-viral-levels-and [regeneron.com]

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      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 03 2020, @01:10AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 03 2020, @01:10AM (#1060203)

        And...Tech Review reports that he's had a dose of Regeneron’s unapproved antibody drug,
            https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/02/1009278/what-drug-treatments-will-president-trump-get/ [technologyreview.com]

        > The president of the United States, Donald Trump, tested positive for covid-19 and within 24 hours had received an experimental, cutting-edge antibody treatment not available to other Americans.
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        > In a statement released Friday, the White House said Trump had received “a single 8-gram dose” of the biotech treatment, which belongs to a promising new class of antiviral drugs.

        • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday October 03 2020, @03:34AM

          by RamiK (1813) on Saturday October 03 2020, @03:34AM (#1060231)

          Yeah they probably saw good early results and assumed they managed to prevent the symptoms.

          Regardless, he was just admitted to the hospital so he probably still ended up developing some mild symptoms so, in hindsight, OP was right and "convalescence" was a misleading choice of word.

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