Team News Riveting
When election fever is high, the rest of the diseases normally find no space.
And American President Donald Trump proved it. Infected with Covid-19, he left the hospital to take a joy ride past supporters. Now, those accompanying the President feared being infected by the virus.
Ever since US President Donald Trump was transferred by helicopter to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, after testing positive for Covid-19, hundreds of his supporters thronged the place.
They are keeping a vigil in front of the hospital’s gates as they pray for his recovery. The gathering ranged from women toting dogs in baby carriages to men waving bibles to political activists waving Uygur banners and Israeli flags.
Their patience however paid off when, in a surprise move on Sunday afternoon, Trump left the hospital and took a quick drive by to see his supporters gathered outside. Two persons, probably from the Secret Services, accompanied him in the vehicle. Hours earlier, the president’s medical team confirmed that his blood oxygen level dropped suddenly twice in recent days.
A White House spokesman, Judd Deere, said the drive had been “cleared by the medical team as safe” and that “appropriate precautions were taken in the execution of this movement to protect the president and all those supporting it, including PPE.”
The President’s move had however drawn criticism from a section including a doctor attending on him who termed the joy ride as “insanity.”
“Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die,” Dr James P. Phillips, an attending doctor at Walter Reed, tweeted.
