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Overly rosy optimistic picture only to find out later that the president used oxygen briefly on multiple occasions at least 2 and also had a high fever at one point we are hearing there that in fact the has not had to have any fever reducing medication such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen in more than 72 hours so certainly the president s physician giving a positive outlook something that will be welcomed by the supporters behind me as the president now prepares to move to the white house south of here in about 3 hours time but again there would be a lot of questions that remain unanswered that reporters will be looking for you heard them there specifically the timeline when the president knew that he was potentially ill and why there wasnt more done to protect the many people around him as we see the numbers of people infected rising at the white house not just the press secretary kaley machinating but also we know other members of the press team the press corps and even. Resident staff so a lot of trepidation perhaps as the president returns knowing that he could be shedding the virus still and requiring support because the thing about going back to the white house is you were as you were highlighting and just there kimberly we have seen several cases of the white house itself do we have any indication are we going to have any indication of how things will actually work as in when it comes to come to tracing and distancing and a lot of people that will im guessing have to self isolate. Will be seen already as a lot of self and foresman thats taken place in the absence of any court unaided response what weve seen increasingly we know is happening at the white house now is that the staff is working from home if they are able in order to self isolate and we also have seen that amongst the press corps i myself stay away from my colleagues by at least a meter or more at all times and have been doing this for many weeks we also made the decision as a team here at aljazeera not to attend that rose garden ceremony that was a super spreader a vent we knew that there would not be the appropriate social distancing it was not a risk we were willing to take so while we were present covering the event from the white house we did not go into the rose garden specifically but allowed for our normal white house north lawn position in order to make sure that we were safe so we seem a number of staff doing that but at the same time others do not have that luxury particularly the travel pool that travels with the president and as a result we know the people that have traveled on air force one have now tested positive and to your question about Contact Tracing were told in the case of the New York Times reporter mark michael shear that in fact he had as of recently as yesterday not been contacted by the white house with regard to Contact Tracing that had trouble to him as well as many other reporters and photographers who feel that perhaps there should have been more information in that information should have come sooner. Campbell. Thank you we will be crossing live to you again for more reaction in the coming hour for the moment outside Walter Reed Hospital there thank you well one side is the rector of the Global Health initiative at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University shes also professor of a pedia all the g. And medicine and she joins us now from new york by skype adam thank you so much for joining us here on now having heard the war weve heard from the president s medical team do you think that they were right to to discharge him right now its very hard to tell based on the information thats been provided to us it seems like theres selective medical information and then obviously the concerns of the involving some medical information in general i think its important to keep in mind that the president is essentially being discharged from one hospital to almost another hospital and the white house hes not being discharged home hes not be discharged to the community he is being discharged to very well. Supplied one staffed medical facility at the white house where he will get essentially monitoring around the clock of his house because hes actually due to receive the 5th dose of rum theres a viewer actually on tuesday at the white house is also received dexamethasone just tell us a little bit more about these 2. Medicines which in a way have been the main ones that have been discovered so to speak over the past few months to help in the treatment of covert 19 do you think they indicate the fact that the president was in a serious condition or maybe the doctor is effectively could and did try anything that they had of their disposal. Well that hasnt received actually. At least 3 interventions that im aware of one was the synthetic Monoclonal Antibody the experiment is not of the animal as of yet to others to any any anyone else outside of a Clinical Trial and he also received from disappear and then most recently so hes essentially received a lot of what so many of both we have at our fingertips its really unclear when though this was because his clinicians his doctors wanted to give him every benefit of the doubt and give him every regimen every medication thats in the you know what order they actually following the guidelines they tell us that some of these are some of these medications theyre only recommended for people with severe illness so its really hard to tell whether its because he had severe illness or whether they just wanted to be extra cautious and give him whatever is available at this point and we also heard from the doctors are there was no evidence of live virus anymore it is that easy to tell theres a guarantee that the president himself is no longer contagious because as far as i remember that actually confirmed when hed last or if he had tested negative. Yes and that again it has not been very false when he last name and tested negative which is a very important piece of information so we know when he was last negative and when he became positive in there for we can then define the period when he was infectious that he could actually transmit this virus to others around him and we know that people can usually transmit up to 2 days before they become positive or 2 days before they develop symptoms so thats a very important piece of information that guides what you do with patients but also what you do for the contents of the individual. So i think that lots of their immune and lot of Unanswered Questions as of yet particularly in terms of all the people who do he has had contact over the past week or so and its critically important to try to find all of those contacts assuming they can be quarantined appropriately. Of course while this happens we are seeing ever more cases in in the United States are speaking to us from new york which is itself seeing sort of 2nd spike if you will what do you think of the president s message when he says dont be afraid of covert as he said on twitter just about an hour ago what message do you think that sends to the american people. I think this is a very unfortunate message and you know this country people know this in the United States has suffered enormous losses more than 200000 people have died in the u. S. Alone from kovi. And many more than a 1000000 around the world so it is not is not accurate to say that dont be afraid of co i think people should be cautious and to try as much as possible to protect themselves from getting caught because for some people it more than. Most people they will survive and do well but for some it can be deadly and therefore it should never be underestimated i know that some of these questions are a bit difficult because of course you dont have access to the full picture of the doctor of the president s medical record but weve often seen how in some covert 1000 cases after a few days people seem to get better and that actually they very quickly got worse from what youre seeing is there any clear indication that this is not necessarily whats going to happen to the president or do we just not know and hes going to be monitored i think we dont really know unfortunately we still have a lot of Unanswered Questions regarding come with and one of them is really what the term is the trajectory of an individual with this disease and weve had cases many cases in fact where people did very well in the 1st week when they have over then then unfortunately turned a corner and got worse the 2nd week after theyd been back more as was common so it becomes very critical to continue to follow the symptoms very carefully and follow in individuals could very carefully beyond the 1st few days after the news. Were going to have to leave it there dr wafa. There thank you so much for sharing your expertise and your reaction with us to that News Conference by the president s medical team doctor. Thank you now lets go back to our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett rooms outside the walter reed Military Hospital in bethesda it was very interesting hearing the doctors speak kimberly at 1 point one of them saying hes back about the president when he was asked about whether it had been any mental side effects from the medication that doctors themselves are in a very interesting position because the president s medical team is not just for President Trumping for decades theyre actually military men so what does that say about their relationship with the person that is both their patient but also their commander in chief. You know there is seems to be a very close relationship traditionally with the president and his personal physician your rights this is a military position that is staffed at the white house and we know that this relationship is no different than weve seen with president obama or george w. Bush certainly they do get an extra quality of care world class care something that they talked about there in that press briefing that the ordinary american wouldnt necessarily get afforded that include some of the therapies that the president has taken advantage of that in many ways he has put himself there as kind of a test case most of people not getting these therapies unless they were critically ill you heard the in the press Conference Dr conly there the president s vision physician talking about the fact they really havent had the data about getting it this early in treatment now many people took that to mean that the president was in a much more dire case in terms of his overall prognosis when those were administered but what were hearing from the doctors that theyre saying that it was available so they tried it but what the doctors are not saying and this is what seems to be making headlines in just the last few moments here in the United States is the fact that the doctors would not pin down out of very basic question and that is the timeline in other words when it was the president s final negative test before he tested positive for covert 19 there is some controversy about a fund raiser that he went to on thursday evening last thursday evening in bedminster new jersey and then returned to the white house it was the next day that we got the news that the president knew about hope hicks and it was a beginning to suspect that he himself was buying some time for his own positive diagnosis the question becoming was the president tested late thursday should he have gone to that fundraiser those are questions that are still an answer that his physician would not answer so moving for. Expect there will be some scrutiny with regard to that but right now what people are looking ahead to is the travel back to the white house by the president where he will be under the guise or rather under the supervision of the White House Medical Office which is a 24 hour staffed. By military members of doctors nurses highly trained it doesnt have the same facilities as Walter Reed Medical Center here in bethesda maryland but certainly it is a higher standard of care than Many Americans would be accustomed to that they feel will allow the president to continue to recover safely but again he will not be able to hit the campaign trail until at least monday at least that is the latest from his doctors who say oh well he has improved he has not recovered fully because theyre still isnt really a clear idea of his level of contagion how long hed be contagious for presumably what does it do to his campaign the fact that at the very earliest it would be monday and potentially later than them. Well this is not going to sit well with the president who we know is eager to get back on the campaign trail but he simply wont be able to for his own survival if he wants to remain the candidate hell need to survive this and its not clear with his Underlying Health conditions that that is still a certainty you heard from the doctor there that if in fact there will not be able to breathe that sigh of relief until monday in the meantime his rival who is leading the National Polls democratic president ial nominee joe biden is campaigning in florida this is a key battleground state we have senator Bernie Sanders campaigning in the battleground state of michigan on behalf of joe biden well donald trump remains in a hospital room and back at the white house now he has a tried to release videos hes tried to release and series of tweets on monday as he can pains from his hospital room but it certainly isnt anything like the large scale rallies that he has been Holding Still we expect that the president is going to leave this hospital and try and send the message that he has beaten coded or that his opponent is weak and running from something that donald trump has confronted head on weve already seen the messages from his children and from a subsequent hers indicating that this is the tactic of campaigning the white house will take moving forward that this is a leader who confronted the challenge head on has experienced what hundreds of thousands of americans have experience in terms of infection and that hes ready can to continue this fight and he will try to draw a contrast between himself and joe biden who we know has been taking serious precautions in order to prevent his own infection whether it be mask wearing whether it be limiting his Campaign Schedule however he certainly is on the campaign trail now something that has got to be bothering donald trump who is eager to do the same himself and unable to do so covert 19 yeah i suppose you know recently has been making up for it by a tweeting again and the 2. Where the. Effect of the sort of spoke before the medical team he said dont be afraid of covert remind us what the situation is in the United States right now when it comes to both the contagion rate and the best and whether americans actually should be afraid of covert. Well theres no question that americans should be afraid of covert more than 200000 americans have died from it well we know that typically it has hit people of advanced age we also know that it has hit younger people too particularly those that have some sort of Underlying Health condition as well over the economy remains shut down here in the United States schools remain shut down in many parts of the United States so as a result there is an enormous fear about the fact that there is still the potential for this 2nd even 3rd wave of air traffic is down to less than 30 percent of what it was a year ago people are being laid off jobs are not coming back and there are a number of people that are suffering not just health wise but also in terms of the economy so theres no question that this is a president eager to say that he can bring all of this back but its going to be a challenge given he doesnt have complete control over his own recovery right now let alone the economic one that hes promising to deliver if he gets a 2nd term in the white house right Kimberly Halkett well we are awaiting i guess next to see when the president will leave the hospital due to happen about 2 and a half hours from now well of course be taking the event live for the moment kimberly how kit outside the Military Hospital there can really thank you. Take a look at some other anon u. S. Related stories but still staying with covert russia has recorded its highest number of new infections in a day since may close to 11000 cases were reported on monday more than a 3rd of them were in the capital moscow the pandemic is blamed 421000 russian deaths and more than a 1000000 infections. The french government meanwhile has raised the coronavirus alert in paris to the highest level following a sustained period of rising cases bars cafes james and swimming pools must close for 2 weeks from tuesday restaurants can remain open but only have strict hygiene rules are in place and they will have to close at 10 pm and the Authorities Say working from home us now be prioritized more than ever say has been under similar restrictions for almost 10 days. And here in the u. K. The Health Minister says a technical issue that cause nearly 16000 cases of covert 19 to go unreported hasnt changed the governments outlook on the pandemic the glitch caused the number of daily reported british cases to jump to almost 23000 on sunday because they were overlooked many people who came into contact with active cases have not been informed that the reports. Britains testing system was supposed to be world beating but the latest problems of forced the government into an urgent investigation Public Health england the government body says its identified what it calls a technical error involving a spreadsheet last friday it seems columns of data had been missed off as a result almost 16000 positive test results were left out of official figures through week the missing cases were added over the weekend so while daily reported infections had been around 7000 saturdays number was nearly 13000 and some days was almost 23000 contacts of those positive cases are now being alerted. Told to self isolate 51 percent of the cases have now been contacted a 2nd time for Contact Tracing purposes i want to reassure the house that outbreak control in care homes schools and hospitals has not been directly affected because dealing with outbreaks in these settings does not primarily rely on this particular p. H. E. System but the episode raises the possibility that many thousands of people without symptoms may have spread covered 19 in the last week one of the most crucial points in this pandemic we learned that almost 16000 positive cases went unreported for a week that means as many as 48000 contacts not traced or not isolating the latest delays will do little to improve the publics faith in the centralized system which involves private firms and public bodies it was launched months beyond shojo and the percentage of contacts traced has been falling. Meanwhile the weekly rate of new coronavirus cases has soared in dozens of areas mainly in Northern England after the missing data was added in manchester now has the highest rate in england its doubled to almost 500. 00 cases per 100000 people the governments already under pressure in areas under specific restrictions affecting one in 4 people in england to explain the rationale behind some of them some regional politicians are now calling for more local control of test and trace the barber al jazeera. In a year when public attention is very much focused on medical advances the nobel prize for medicine has been awarded for research dating back decades americans harvey alter and charles rice and the briton michael how to have been honored for discovering the hepatitis c. Virus of the nations for this years award preceded the Global Pandemic but the Noble Assembly says the prize recognizes the importance of identifying a virus as the 1st step in winning the battle against the seeds. 9 days into the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan both sides appear to be ramping up was still a tease over the disputed territory of nagornokarabakh the nato chief added his voice to calls for an immediate ceasefire as dozens more casualties were reported in the deadliest fighting there for more than 25 years the remote mountainous region is officially part of us survive but its ethnically armenian and has been an officially run by a minyan forces since the end of a 6 year war in 1994 the go to look at a box says every forces have been launching sustained rocket strikes on its capital stepping the kept but the fighting is fretting beyond the disputed region as a by john has reported several missile attacks on its 2nd largest city thats gun yeah and on the. Farm where segment of reports. Style fire gentlemen governor ridge the 4th largest city in azerbaijan 2 of them hit a nearby hydro power complex which is the largest in the caucuses region as a real fish will say critical civilian infrastructure is under imminent threat our main yet denies that we are deeply concerned about the situation in their own god but we are of course watching the situation very carefully we have all seen the reports about the increased number of casualties also civilians 1000000 casualties and of course. Any fighting notice also poses risks to all kinds of critical infrastructure. Despite being far from the front line of our bridge on 2nd largest city was also attacked our menu denies involvement in the killing of 6 civilians other azari cities such as tact orenburg which are close and are going to car bomb were also targeted yes thats it if we live in the city the armenian fascists have been bombing this town for days and spreading chaos in this place our homes were bombed and destroyed and we stayed in the middle like this everyone went. As a rage as militaries also in action had worn a car a box main city stopping carriage has been have since sunday as the most intensive bombing of the city since the war in 1904 the town of sushi 10 kilometers from stepanek and was also bombed all day monday Azerbaijan Armed forces started a target internationally syrian objects and operation as a result of which we have over the 1st of casualties and much more wounded i mean as Prime Minister is asking all young men who have recently been demobilized to come back to join the battle. Is urging them to fight to the death and ensure victory in this war the 2 former soviet republics have long been in comfort. Doris are big johns breakaway i mean they are the gunmen in region of. The art the latest fighting now into its 2nd week follows cross border attacks in july when an older differential says fire was broken. Then as our bridges Defense Ministry threatened our mania with attacks on the met some more Nuclear Power plant this region serves as a corridor for pipelines carrying oil from the caspian sea to International Markets and a threat to stability heightens customers concerns about supply given the intense fighting going to nagano kauravas front line and we saw a striking densely Populated Areas many question just how far the 2 neighbors will carry the conflict this fight their domestic problems seen across all aljazeera we get a reservation or listen in mentioned there in her reporter meaning as president has called for volunteers to join the fight in the quarter look at about her and its less as war for goddess in our media. Well is an indication i think of the pressure the no go no kind of back is that our media and president nicole passion has this evening hold on those recently demobilized a young man from the army to come back to fight a young man whos done the 2 years Obligatory Military Service and they cannot be forced to come back but the Prime Minister is asking them to come back his own son to finish military service earlier in the summer has come back to join the fight for whats happening is that Ethnic Armenians are going to join the fight and to go on a car bomb this is not the Armenian Military or the country of amina fighting us or by john this is the enclave of nagornokarabakh which is ethnically now. Medians coming to join the fight and theyre clearly under pressure that the Prime Minister is having to ask young men to come back to the fight to already called up when the fighting started on the 27th old man to an 80. 52 had already done their military service many years before and were in the reserves hes asked them to come back to fight so clearly there is a lot of demand for men on the ground to fight and we know that in the main town of no go in a car boxed up and aka today that has been relentless bombardment coming from the azerbaijan side the city the town was hit on sunday with that during that bombardment and it was very intensive and im told today by people on the ground that it has been more intensive still i dont feel structure is being targeted particularly electricity transmission stations we saw all those being targeted so yes and there are casualties people been wounded and 500 People Killed as far as we know from some days from a bomb. Ok thats it for the moment stay with us that were going to be back in just a moment to with more reaction on that News Conference the latest developments from the u. S. Dollars. Business leaders this board to find a bra spot. Business leaders just want to find a bra spot. A face can tell a story without uttering a single one at the unconventionality of life is what inspires us. To witness documentaries on aljazeera the u. S. Is always of in fact the people all right the wall theyve been going on for a number of them but you gotta be ugly to report 30000 International Perspective the crikey your global audience how this could impact feel like this is an important part of the world and other leaders very good at bringing the news to the world from here. The earth youre the on. Reports President Trump says hell be leaving hospital in the coming hours and are just people and not to be afraid of covert the team and i agree that all are evaluations and most importantly hes clinical status support the president safe return home where hell be surrounded by world class medical care 247. Hello im Barbara Starr youre watching ill just say were live from london also coming up the virus continues its spread through the white house with press secretary caley mcenaney that