Chris Hayes took a hard look at Trump around the time he tested positive for COVID and just carried on spreading it to everyone in sight:
And this twitter thread about Trump testing positive for COVID before the presidential debate adds some important details:
After reading coverage and talking to sources about Trump’s positive covid test, a few small points that stick out to me, as a health reporter. Trump hid his positive test from the most senior health officials fighting covid — Birx, Fauci, Hahn, Azar, etc
It’s symbolic of Trump’s entire response: the very officials charged with trying to contain a national covid outbreak (that the president often played down) didn’t have access to relevant information about a possible covid outbreak in their own workplace.
From Meadows’ description and the Guardian’s summary, it sounds like Trump was tested with an unnamed rapid test — and after his positive result, that same sample was rerun, somewhat later, through another antigen test.
This is not the way to do accurate coronavirus testing.
Some of Trump’s political allies had warned against relying on antigen tests.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine had a false positive antigen test that forced him to cancel an Aug 2020 meeting with Trump — prompting DeWine to publicly stress the need for PCR tests to get the truth.
The Cleveland Clinic, which hosted the Sept. 29 debate, said after Trump’s public covid diagnosis on Oct. 2 that it believed guests had “low risk of exposure.”
The clinic didn’t respond on Wednesday to questions about whether it was still “low risk,” given the new info.
Cleveland Clinic also declined to answer a question on whether it should’ve just tested Trump itself.
Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic are arguably the world’s two most renowned hospital systems. Both suffered PR black eyes in their dealings with Trump White House last year.
Anyway. Know I’m posting these thoughts a bit late, but only now getting a chance to read all the stories. Thanks to @AshleyRParker @jdawsey1 @AnnieLinskey @feliciasonmez @tylerpager for letting me chip in with ours.
Originally tweeted by Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) on December 2, 2021.
Trump’s doctors and close associates aided and abetted the cover up of his condition.
Here’s hoping that the Select COVID Committee in the House calls all of them up to the hill for a chat.
As far as I’m concerned this was a case of reckless endangerment at best. And when it comes to Trump I’m quite sure he knew that he could be exposing and Biden to the virus (he was clearly sick as you can see in the video above) and that he could be killing him. Of course he did.