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White House physician Sean Conley said President Donald Trump took a COVID-19 test on Saturday which showed that he is no longer a “transmission risk to others.”
Conley said in a statement that tests show there is no longer evidence “of actively replicating virus.”
The White House had no immediate comment on whether Conley’s statement indicated that the president had tested negative for the virus.
Christ. Again: there is no test for infectiousness. Reading between the lines, is Trump repeatedly getting PCR positives with high cycle thresholds (i.e., low but still detectable viral loads)? Would love to see the data. pic.twitter.com/HaD3fycNX1
Mexico’s Health Ministry on Saturday reported 4,577 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 135 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 814,328 cases and 83,642 deaths.
The government says the real number of infected people is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases:
from The Guardian https://ift.tt/36PYeeY