Trump Flouts COVID-19 Safety Rules in Motorcade to Visit Supporters Outside Hospital
Two days after President Donald Trump was transported to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, he took a “joy ride” in a motorcade on Rockville Pike, right outside the hospital, to visit a group of supporters. “It was a surreal scene,” CNN’s Jeremy Diamond reported Oct. 4. There was Trump, supposedly in “frail health” and on three different types of meds, staging a photo op “with secret service agents in a hermetically sealed SUV.”
This was “amazingly irresponsible. His physician should have said no,” Dr. Jonathan Reiner, cardiologist with The George Washington University Hospital, told CNN. Reiner added that Trump exposed the secret service agents to COVID-19 via recirculated air.
“Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days,” tweeted James P. Phillips, who is also a professor at George Washington University. “They might get sick. They may die. For political theater,” the Washington Post reported.
According to The New York Times, Trump has received a trio of drugs since arriving at the hospital: an experimental antibody drug from Regeneron, remdesivir, used to treat severe COVID-19 infection, and dexamethasone, a steroid, used to treat…
