"Infamously anti-mask, president Donald Trump was meeting with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and top health officials in the Oval Office when he was suddenly interrupted by his own secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sneezing loudly, directly over his shoulder. "God bless you, Bobby," riffed Trump, a self-professed germaphobe. "I hope I didn't catch COVID just there.""
"If Kennedy were reallypassing COVID around meeting s with Trump, it wouldn't be the 79-year old president's first run-in with the virus. During his first term, he was rushed to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center when he caught the bug at the height of the pandemic - after months of denigrating masks and offering confusing and contradictory guidance on the outbreak. He stayed three nights for treatment,and later reportedly admitted that he was scared he was going to die during the ordeal."
"This summer, he was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition in which vein walls suffer increased pressure and strain due to blood pooling. Whether it's the poorly color-matched coverup on his chronically bruised hands, puffy ankles, droopy face or questions around possible cognitive decline, we know COVID isn't something immunocompromised elders should treat lightly. Most egregious, though, has been Trump's ongoing disparagement of vaccines, and support for anti-vaxx figures like Kennedy - a dismal public health failure that costs countless American lives every year"
President Donald Trump mocked a staffer who sneezed in the Oval Office, joked about catching COVID, and urged Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla to provide Paxlovid. Trump previously contracted COVID during his first term, was treated at Walter Reed for three nights, and later said he feared dying. He has a recent diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency and visible bruising, swelling, and facial droop that raise health questions for an older leader. Trump has long opposed masks and disparaged vaccines while supporting anti-vaccine figures such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Rising public skepticism of vaccines has contributed to preventable deaths.
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