'Fatigued' President Trump, 74, is headed to Walter Reed hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19 usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Trump is going to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, in what aides said was a precautionary move. Officials said they expected him to be there for a few days.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the president "remains in good spirits, has mild symptoms, and has been working throughout the day."
"Out of an abundance of caution, and at the recommendation of his physician and medical experts, the President will be working from the presidential offices at Walter Reed for the next few days."
"President Trump appreciates the outpouring of support for both he and the First Lady," she added.
The president received a single 8 gram dose of Regeneron's polyclonal antibody cocktail as a precautionary measure, according to a memo from White House physician Dr. Sean Conley.
The antibody cocktail is being studied in four late-stage clinical trials and its safety and efficacy have not been fully evaluated by any regulatory authority, the company said on its page.
The president also has been taking zinc, vitamin D, famotidine, melatonin and a daily aspirin, Conley said.
Conley said the first lady was experiencing only a "mild cough and headache." He added that other members of the president's family are well and tested negative for COVID-19.
When asked whether Trump would address the nation about his health in the coming days, McEnany said: "It’s safe to say that you’ll be seeing and hearing from the president as he moves forward with his working schedule."
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In Thursday’s paper:
- New climate change front line: Insurance
- Trump’s deja vu all over again
- Alaska’s grim Army suicide rate receding
Smoke descended on New York City, oceans are rising, arctic ice is melting. But one of the most significant and undeniable ways Americans will be impacted by climate change is far less dramatic: Insurance. usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
The arraignment of a former president Tuesday on charges of violating the Espionage Act was breathtaking.
Students are misbehaving more now than they did before the pandemic, according to 70% of 1,000 educators in a recent national survey. And many educators said they had no idea how to handle the rise in disruptions this year. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Teachers are under pressure to help students make up for what they haven’t learned, and kids feel their stress. The combination has led to a pronounced rise in students expressing anger or sadness by lashing out and being disruptive at school.
Educators sent kids to other classrooms or school offices to be consoled by someone else, worked longer hours to try to counsel children themselves, set up physical boxes for kids to anonymously share their complaints and ramped up lessons in managing emotions.
Student attendance nationwide is nowhere close to pre-pandemic levels amid parents’ ongoing concerns about students’ health, shifting mindsets about the importance of classroom time and the expectations of school.
Chronic absenteeism can significantly reduce a child’s academic performance and odds of graduation. But since the pandemic hit, the problem has reached new proportions, despite the widespread return to classrooms and standard school routines.
The number of students who were chronically absent last spring was 16 million. That's double the 8 million of chronically absent students before COVID-19.
Donald Trump prepared for his initial court appearance Tuesday as the first former president to be criminally indicted by flying from New Jersey to Florida, continuing to fundraise and blasting the rival Biden administration. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
More than three years after the COVID outbreak began, many children are severely behind in school. They miss class, struggle to read or do math and can hardly sit still after years of shape-shifting school days. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
After a day full of math and reading lessons, third grader Ashley Soto struggles to concentrate during a writing exercise. She’s supposed to be crafting an essay, but instead she wanders around the classroom.
“My brain is about to explode!” she exclaims.
Fourth grade teacher Rodney LaFleur looks for a student to answer a math question. He reaches into a jar filled with popsicle sticks, each with the name of one of his students. The first student’s name he draws is absent. So is the second. And the third.
In the year since the Supreme Court dismantled Roe v. Wade, the quiet college town of Carbondale, Illinois, came to symbolize the shifting map of U.S. abortion access. bit.ly/3WSULUP
Carbondale transformed into an important abortion destination for women across the Midwest and South, states where abortion bans and restrictions have spread.
A year ago, there were no clinics in Carbondale. Now, it is the closest abortion destination for more than 1.2 million women from states as far as Louisiana, according to an analysis by Caitlin Myers, an economics professor at Middlebury College.