Donald Trump Returns To White House, Removes Mask As He Continues COVID-19 Treatment
President Donald Trump checked out of hospital on October 5 after four days of emergency treatment for COVID-19. The US President pulled off his mask the moment he reached the White House and vowed that he would quickly get back on the campaign trail. Shortly beforehand, Trump had tweeted that Americans, who have lost nearly 210,000 people to the virus, have nothing to fear. With less than a month until November 3 election day, polls show Trump behind Democrat Joe Biden and left scrambling even harder by his hospitalisation to catch up. The return to the White House was minutely stage managed to show he is physically fit, while a series of striking tweets demonstrated Trump's coming angle of political attack - that he personally beat Covid and will now lead the country to its own comeback. In a briefing from the hospital, presidential physician Sean Conley said Trump is "back" but also said he would not be "entirely out of the woods" for another week. Trump now looks poised to try and claim that in getting quickly out of hospital he has personally vanquished the virus -- and will go on to do the same for the rest of the country. Biden meanwhile has maintained his slow-but-steady campaign which has always emphasized health precautions - a pared-back style that Trump calls weakness and mocked as recently as last week.
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