In his mid-70s and apparently overweight, President Trump faces a COVID-19 mortality risk of between 9 and 10 percent, Yahoo News medical contributor Dr. Kavita Patel said.
WASHINGTON — In his mid-70s and apparently overweight, President Trump faces a COVID-19 mortality risk of between 9 and 10 percent, Dr. Kavita Patel told Yahoo News in an interview on Friday.
Trump’s diagnosis was announced in the early-morning hours on Friday. COVID-19 is the disease caused by the coronavirus. Trump is 74 years old and weighs 244 pounds. Both his advanced age and his above-normal weight put him at greater risk of serious COVID-19 illness that could require hospitalization. That possibility is “very real,” said Patel, a physician and and medical contributor to Yahoo News.It is not yet clear just what Trump’s diagnosis means for the people who have attended his rallies, Tuesday’s presidential debate, a fundraiser in New Jersey or events in the White House.
Patel, who is also a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution, believes Trump has potentially exposed “at least dozens of people, if not hundreds of people, that he has been in contact with.” She described the president’s campaign rallies — “where there are people indoors, traveling from outside places and also not wearing masks” — as potential superspreader events. Read more from Yahoo News:
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