Trump preparing to leave hospital after Covid-19 treatment

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Donald Trump has said he is leaving the military hospital where he has been treated for Covid-19 and will continue his recovery at the White House&comma; adding that he is feeling good and the nation should not be afraid of the virus that has killed more than 209&comma;000 Americans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The president’s expected return comes as the scale of the outbreak within the White House itself is still being uncovered&period; Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany announced she had tested positive for the virus on Monday morning and was entering quarantine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6&colon;30 P&period;M&period;&comma;” Mr Trump tweeted&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Feeling really good&excl; Don’t be afraid of Covid&period; … I feel better than I did 20 years ago&excl;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He is expected to make the journey aboard the presidential helicopter&comma; Marine One&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is unclear how long Mr Trump will remain in isolation at the White House&period; According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention&comma; those with mild to moderate symptoms should isolate for at least 10 days&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His doctor&comma; Navy Commander Sean Conley&comma; was also upbeat at a briefing and said the president could resume his normal schedule once &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;there is no evidence of live virus still present”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But he cautioned that it was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;uncharted territory” having a patient receive such aggressive medication so early in the course of the disease&comma; and Mr Trump would not be fully out of the woods for another week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dr Conley repeatedly declined to share results of medical scans of Mr Trump’s lungs&comma; saying he was not at liberty to discuss the information because the president did not waive doctor-patient confidentiality on the subject&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>White House officials said he was anxious to be released after three nights at Walter Reed&comma; where doctors revealed on Sunday that his blood oxygen level had dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that they gave him a steroid typically only recommended for the very sick&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Less than a month before Election Day&comma; Mr Trump is eager to project strength despite his illness&period; The still-infectious president surprised supporters gathered outside the hospital&comma; riding by on Sunday in a black SUV with the windows rolled up&period; Secret Service agents inside the vehicle could be seen in masks and other protective gear&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The move capped a weekend of contradictions that fuelled confusion about his health&comma; which has imperilled the leadership of the US government and upended the final stages of the presidential campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While Mr Trump’s physician offered a rosy prognosis on his condition&comma; his briefings lacked basic information&comma; including the findings of lung scans&comma; or were quickly muddled by more serious assessments of the president’s health by other officials&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a short video released by the White House on Sunday&comma; Mr Trump insisted he understood the gravity of the moment&comma; but his actions moments later&comma; by leaving the hospital and sitting inside the SUV with others&comma; suggested otherwise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms McEnany spoke briefly with reporters on Sunday evening without wearing a mask&comma; but said that no members of the White House press corps spent enough time around her to be considered close contacts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Joe Biden’s campaign said the Democratic presidential nominee again tested negative for coronavirus on Sunday&period; The results came five days after he spent more than 90 minutes on the debate stage with Mr Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Biden&comma; who has taken a far more cautious approach to in-person events — and has been mocked repeatedly for it by Mr Trump — had two negative tests on Friday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The president’s doctors sidestepped questions on Sunday about exactly when his blood oxygen dropped — episodes they neglected to mention in multiple statements the day before — or whether lung scans showed any damage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was the second straight day of obfuscation from a White House already suffering from a credibility crisis&comma; and it raised more doubts about whether the doctors treating the president were sharing accurate&comma; timely information with the American public about the severity of his condition&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed3b750cc7b">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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