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The recent news ofDonald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis is proof that no one is completely protected from the persistent virus, not even the president. And Trump is not the first president sitting in contracting a serious illness. In fact, there is a long history of American presidents falling sick with all of smallpox to the 1918 Spanish flu who returns to the first commander of our chief country. Read it to discover the American presidents who foughtserious illness Any integer. And for more information on the current health of the President, checkThese 4 factors put Donald Trump at the risk of severe covidation.

Woodrow Wilson was at the office during theSpanish influenza epidemic This started in 1918 - the epidemic that the Covid-19 pandemic is often compared to. And as our current president, Wilson has contracted the disease, who had already wreak havoc in the United States.

According toThe New YorkerWilson wasStruck with the fatal strain of the flu in Paris in 1919 To negotiate the Treaty of Versailles, becoming "violently sick", a note by the president's doctor at the White House said. Although he recovers Spanish flu, Wilsonhad a stroke Six months later and was unable for the rest of his time in the office. And despite the disease itself - without saying that it has killed at least 20 million people - Wilson never addressed the severity of the disease.

"It should be recalled as a thorough failure as president of the pandemic,"Steve Coll written inThe New Yorker article. "In addition to the Debacle of Versailles, he has never spoken publicly from the flu who decimated the United States." And for more American story, check30 amazing facts about American presidents that you have never known.

During his life,George Washington foughtA list of laundry of serious illness This includes tuberculosis, malaria and smallpox, PBS reported in 2011. While serving as President, Washington had a leg tumor and, in 1790,fell with serious cases of influenza and pneumonia It almost cost him his audience. To the surprise of those around him, Washington has recovered, but eventually died in 1799 of a throat infection. He was 67 years old. And find out more about the presidential command chain, see theseSurprising facts on the presidential succession line.

Shortly after delivered the Address of Gettysburg in the afternoon of November 19, 1863,Abraham Lincoln started going down with what wasFinally determined to be smallpox. While Lincoln was sick for about a month, his doctors tried to tell him that his case was light, which was far from the truth. In reality, the disease almost took one's life.

"Lincoln's doctors have tried to reassure him that his illness was a slight shape of smallpox, but that might have been to prevent the public from fearing that Lincoln dies:"ARMOND GOLDMAN, MD, Professor of Pediatric Emeritus at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, said Reuters in 2007.

Whether or not itRonald Reagan was touched bySymptoms of dementia Although still in the office - he was officially diagnosed Alzheimer's disease five years after the end of his presidency - remains a subject of much debate between historians. What is confirmed, however, is the fact that Reaganhad his share of health problems while he was commander-in-chief. According to the channel of history, Reagan in 1985 had multiple polyps removed from his colon - one of whom was found to be cancerous. And two years later, he had a cancer of the epithelial skin of the basal cell eliminated from his nose.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Has been able to keep the extent to which his polio has affected him physically to the public so that it is impossible in today's world.

According to the history chain, Roosevelt "wanted to project strength and virility, and thus conceived a way to" walk "during public appearances. This implied to carry braces in the leg, to use a cane and Use his son's arm or trusted advisor. "He would also have asked the press not to photograph to walk or transfer or get out of his car. "The secret service has been instructed to interfere with those who have tried to capture images that can represent the [president] as" weak ", says the story.

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