WASHINGTON, Oct 11, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – President Donald Trump is no
longer contagious, nine days after being stopped in his tracks by
Covid-19, his physician said in a statement released late Saturday.
“I am happy to report that in addition to the President meeting CDC
criteria for the safe discontinuation of isolation, this morning’s
COVID PCR sample demonstrates, by currently recognized standards, he
is no longer considered a transmission risk to others,” the
president’s physician Sean Conley said in the statement.
Conley, who has been accused of a lack of transparency with the
public, said it had been 10 days since Trump first began showing
symptoms of the new coronavirus. The president was hospitalized one
day later, on October 2.
Tests showed there was “no longer evidence of actively replicating
virus,” and that Trump’s viral load was “decreasing,” Conley continued
— though he did not state that the president is now Covid-free.
Trump is fever-free and his symptoms have “improved,” Conley said,
adding that he would continue to monitor the president as he “returns
to an active schedule.”
Trump, who stayed in the hospital for three days before returning
to the White House, has been pushing to jump back on the campaign
trail.
He trails his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, badly in the polls
with less than a month before the election on November 3.