The Epoch Times President Donald Trump gives a press briefing about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) alongside members of the Coronavirus Task Force in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on March 14, 2020. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
The White House physician has said that the presidentâs test result for COVID-19 has come back negative, according to a memo released to the media.
âLast night after an in-depth discussion with the President regarding COVID-19 testing, he elected to proceed,â Dr. Sean Conley wrote in a memo.
âThis evening, I received confirmation that the test is negative.â
Conley said the president remains symptom-free.
âI have been in daily contact with the CDC and the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and we are encouraging the implementation of all their best practices for exposure reduction and transmission mitigation,â he added.
President Trumpâs physician says the President tested negative for the coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/Vv94hgC0Co
â Emel Akan (@mlakan)Â March 14, 2020
Trump decided to take a test on Saturday after questions arose about his health because he had come into contact with two infected individuals at Mar-a-Lago last week.
But White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said on Friday that it was his professional opinion that the president did not need testing.
âThe Presidentâs exposure to the first individual was extremely limited (photograph, handshake), and though he spent more time in proximity to the second case, all interactions occurred before any symptom onset [in those individuals],â Conley said at the time.
Emel Akan contributed to this report.