“A neurologist who is an expert on Parkinson’s disease has been to the White House eight times in the last four months”: this is the bombshell that the New York Times drops and shakes – even more – the White House, hit by the storm over Joe Biden and his health, following the flop of the last confrontation with Trump for the presidential race. Between July 2023 and last March, according to the authoritative US newspaper, the White House visitor logs show that Kevin Cannard, a neurologist who has conducted research on Parkinson’s disease, was a guest eight times in the last four months, between July 2023 and last March.
But Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, said in a letter made public Monday night that Cannard recently evaluated the president ahead of his February physical. That Cannard exam did not return “any findings” that might be related to Parkinson’s or any other neurological disorder. “His findings have been made public every time I have published the results of the President’s annual physical,” O’Connor wrote, noting that “Biden has not seen a neurologist outside of his annual physical.”
The letter was released following the White House itself, through spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, rigorously denied that the president is undergoing treatment for Parkinson’s. As the Washington Post reports this time, the White House confirmed that a neurologist expert in the disease evaluated President Biden three times, stating that the tests were part of the president’s annual physical exams. In any case, these statements rain down following the White House briefing with the press the other day, which was particularly tense. Spokeswoman Jean-Pierre struggled to answer the pressing and very direct questions regarding Biden’s health. “Has the president been undergoing treatment for Parkinson’s?” was asked several times by reporters present. “No,” was the answer. Ditto for “Is he currently undergoing treatment for this same disease?” In the end, the spokeswoman had to ask reporters several times to be quiet and listen to her, as well as to “show respect.”
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2024-07-13 00:33:46