總統很可能與其它一些人都是9-26感染的。他很可能星期三的測試是陽性，但沒引起重視，星期四其助手發病，他再測，也是陽性。這次才引起重視。下麵USA Today引述川普醫生的話，星期四"when we repeated testing"，請注意"repeated"，顯然早些時候已經測試了，隻是當時沒有症狀，沒有肯定而已。在周六上午，醫生說的72小時into the diagnosis，應該不是口誤，這時候知道星期三測的陽性結果是真實的，應從那時算起。當時禦醫沒有意識到說真話的後果，也不能當著那麽多知情的醫生麵前說謊。
"Thursday afternoon, following the news of a close contact is when we repeated testing, and given kind of clinical indications I had a little bit more concern, and that’s when – late that night – we got the PCR confirmation that he was," Conley said, referring to a molecular diagnostic test.
