Former US President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, were discreetly vaccinated against COVID-19 last January before leaving the White House, local media revealed Monday.
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It’s unclear whether Trump, who for months refused to wear a mask in public to protect himself from the disease, and whether the former first lady received the first or both doses of the vaccine.
It has also not been disclosed which of the vaccines currently approved for emergency use in the US – Moderna’s or Pfizer’s – was given to them.
An advisor to the ex-president consulted by the newspaper The New York Times confirmed Trump received the vaccine privately in January. On Sunday, Trump said in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that “everyone should start receiving their injection”, in his first public intervention since the end of his mandate, on January 20
The way the former president handled this issue contrasts with that of his successor, Democrat Joe Biden, who was given both doses of the vaccine publicly and encouraged his countrymen to follow suit.
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In late September, Trump became infected with covid-19 along with his wife and had to be hospitalized for three days at a Washington DC health center, from which he left after receiving the experimental antibody cocktail from the pharmaceutical Regeneron. and the antiviral drug Remdesivir.
A government official said in mid-December that Trump would not get the COVID-19 vaccine until it was recommended by the White House medical team. During his tenure, Trump began in a series of interviews with journalist Bob Woodward for his book “Rage” acknowledging that he had deliberately underestimated the severity of the disease in the early pandemic so as not to panic the American public.
Upon his arrival at the White House, Biden set a goal to deliver 100 million doses in his first 100 days in office and stop the spread of the pandemic in the United States, the country most affected by Covid-19 , where more than half a million people have died and more than 28.6 people are infected with the virus.
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