The vice president’s personal doctor Kamala Harris announced this Saturday through a statement that the Democratic candidate for the White House is in “excellent health” and “has the physical and mental capacity necessary to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.” The doctor Joshua Simmonsin charge of ensuring Harris’ health for the last three years, details in its report that the 58-year-old Democratic candidate underwent an “uncomplicated” medical examination in April that determined that she does not suffer from any serious illness. . She is up to date on her mammograms and colon exams, the latter being an important fact due to the “remarkable history of cancer in the candidate’s family, on her mother’s side.”
Harris has seasonal allergies and hives, a common skin condition that can cause itching, bumps, or hives on the skin, however. Allergies that have been treated with over-the-counter and prescription medications, according to Simmons, who also revealed that Harris has been on allergy immune therapy since 2021. According to the statement, said treatment has greatly improved his symptoms of allergies and hives to the point that he no longer needs medication on a regular basis.
Kamala Harris has released her first medical report as part of the campaign strategy for the November 5 elections. Thus, the Democratic candidate seeks to expose her rival, Donald Trump. The 78-year-old Republican candidate has refused to make his medical reports public, as he did in the 2016 election campaign.
This could be an important asset in the hands of the Democrats, who intend to focus on the magnate’s state of health as the Republicans did before with Joe Bidenbefore the still president passed the baton to Harris. The publication of the report represents “an opportunity to highlight Trump’s lack of transparency and concerns about his age,” a senior Harris campaign official, quoted by ABC, insisted along these lines.
The latest update on the former president’s health status came this month from his doctor, who simply indicated that his health is “excellent” and that his cognitive tests were “exceptional.” Trump’s medical history, however, continues to leave questions. In 2020, when he was hospitalized with Covid and was running for re-election, his doctors gave minimal information about his condition, which, it was later learned, was much more serious than his public descriptions suggested.
In July 2024, in the middle of one of his rallies in Butler County, Pennsylvania, one of the bullets fired by the would-be assassination Thomas Matthew Crooks He touched her ear. His campaign team did not hold a briefing on his condition; Nor did he publish hospital records or make the emergency room doctors who treated him available for interview.
