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Trump, reversing position, says he got tested for coronavirus after all
Jon Ward, Senior Political Correspondent
Yahoo News ●March 14, 2020
;6:48 AM
WASHINGTON — At a press conference Saturday, President Trump announced that
he had been tested for the coronavirus, settling for the time being a
question on which the White House has reversed itself three times in less
than two days.
Only about 12 hours earlier, the White House physician released a letter
saying testing wasn’t necessary for the president and would not be done —
while acknowledging that another person Trump hosted at Mar-a-Lago last
weekend has now tested positive for the virus.
Trump did not explain why he changed his mind. Results of the coronavirus
test typically take around two days.
On Friday afternoon, Trump had told reporters at a White House press
conference that he would “most likely” be tested. The president was
photographed at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last Saturday standing
shoulder to shoulder with a spokesman for the Brazilian government, who
tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday.
“I didn’t say I’m not going to be tested,” Trump said after one reporter
asked him if he was being “selfish” by not getting tested and continuing
to interact with members of his administration, including officials in
charge of controlling the pandemic. Defying public health precautions, he
spoke to a large group of reporters in the Rose Garden and shook hands with
numerous staffers who joined him on the podium.
“Shaking hands is not a great thing to be doing now, I agree,” Trump said
Saturday, but he said it was a hard habit to break.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key figure in the response to COVID-19, spoke to the
press from the lectern on Friday — repeatedly using his hand to adjust the
height of the microphone into which the president, who is at least six
inches taller, had just been speaking.
Trump’s statement represented a reversal of the White House’s position
from a day earlier, when press secretary Stephanie Grisham said there was no
need for Trump or Vice President Mike Pence to be tested. “Both the
president and vice president had almost no interactions with the individual
who tested positive and do not require being tested at this time,” Grisham
said.
Then, just before midnight on Friday night, the White House reversed itself
again, releasing a letter from Sean Conley, the president’s physician,
which said that “testing for COVID-19 is not currently indicated” for
Trump.
At the same time, the letter disclosed that in addition to the Brazilian
government spokesman, they had learned of “another dinner guest, this one
sharing the table with the President and White House delegation, who was
symptom-free until [Friday] morning and has since tested positive for COVID-
19.”
That dinner guest was Nestor Forster, the Brazilian charge d’affaires to
the U.S., the Brazilian embassy announced.
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