Trump returns to White House, although doctors say he ‘may not entirely be out of the woods’

President Trump left the military hospital where he had been receiving an unprecedented level of care for COVID-19 and declared that the nation should not be afraid of the virus that has killed over 210,000 Americans. President Trump was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and returned to the White House on Monday night, three days after he was hospitalized for COVID-19 and hours after his doctors warned that they wouldn’t know for a week whether he had recovered. Despite receiving experimental drugs and experiencing setbacks over the weekend that suggested medical complications, Trump insisted he was feeling “better than I did 20 years ago,” even as his doctor warned that the president “may not entirely be out of the woods yet.” The mixed messaging reflected days of confusion and misleading statements from the White House, which has become a center of contagion for the disease. Conley said the president’s medical team was confident they could adequately monitor and care for Trump at the White House, which has a team of doctors on 24-hour call and a sophisticated medical unit. “He’s going home to the White House,” Faust said, “where they have a medical unit, they have a medical staff, and if he needs to go to the hospital, he can go there in no time flat.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that patients with mild to moderate symptoms self-isolate for at least 10 days, a regimen that Trump, who is famously impatient and social, may have trouble following.