Washington, United States.
The former US president Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, I know vaccinated discreetly against the COVID-19 last January before leaving the White House, local media announced on Monday.
It is not clear whether Trump, who refused to use in public for months face mask in front of protect yourself from disease, and the former first lady received the first or both doses of the vaccine.
Nor has it been found which of the approved vaccines then for emergency use in the US – the Modern of Pfizer’s– was administered to them.
An adviser to the ex-president, consulted by The New York Times, confirmed this Trump privately received lvaccinate in January.
Yesterday Sunday, Trump assured in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that “everyone has to go get his injection “, in his first public intervention since the end of his term, on January 20.
The way the ex-governor is handling this issue contrasts with his successor, the democrat Joe Biden, to whom both were administered in public vaccine dose and encouraged his countrymen to imitate their example.
At the end of September, Trump got infected with COVID-19, together with his wife, and had to be hospitalized for that three days at a health facility in Washington DC, from which he left after receiving the experimental cocktail antibodies from the pharmaceutical company Regeneron and the antiviral Remdesivir.
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A government official said in mid-December that Trump the covid-19 vaccine until recommended by the medical team White House.
During a mandate, TrumP began to recognize that he had deliberately underestimated the severity of the disease by start of the pandemic lest panic arise among the American public, in a series of interviews with journalist Bob Woodward for his book “Rage”.
Upon arrival at the White House, Biden has set itself a goal of delivering 100 million doses in its first 100 days of function and curbing the spread of the pandemic in the United States, the country most affected by the disease. COVID-19, where more than half a million people have died and more than 28.6 are infected with the virus. EFE