Chris Christie Released From Hospital After Week Of Covid-19 Treatment

In a tweet, Christie thanked the “extraordinary doctors & nurses who cared for me for the last week” and said “I will have more to say about all of this next week.”

Christie, an ally of President Trump who had been assisting him with debate prep, tested positive for the virus on Oct. 3 amid a flurry of positive tests among Trump’s inner circle, including Trump himself.

Christie had said shortly before his positive test that at least one debate prep session was held in the White House map room with “about five or six people,” including Trump and Hope Hicks, both of whom tested positive, without masks.

Christie was also present at Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Sept. 27 White House rose garden ceremony, which has been described as a “super spreader event” by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top public health expert.

A sufferer of asthma, Christie said his breathing was fine when he first checked into the hospital but that he had begun a course of Covid-19 treatment remdesivir, a medication also given to Trump that is typically administered in severe cases.

President Trump had remained oddly silent about Christie’s condition, even though he is one of his closest advisors.