Dr. Sean Conley, the president's physician, wrote in a memo on Thursday that President Trump has "completed his course of therapy for COVID-19" and will be able to resume "public engagements" on Saturday.
Trump announced early last Friday morning that he tested positive for COVID-19, and later that day, he was hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center. He left the facility on Monday evening, and Conley said that since then, Trump's "physical exam has remained stable and devoid of any indications to suggest progress of illness. Overall, he's responded extremely well to treatment, without evidence on examination of adverse therapeutic effects."
Conley said Saturday will be "day 10 since Thursday's diagnosis, and based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the president's safe return to public engagements at that time." The White House has refused to share when Trump's last negative test was taken.
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