Harris' doctor reports she's in 'excellent health'

WASHINGTON — 

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is successful “excellent health” and “possesses the carnal and intelligence resiliency” required to service arsenic president, her doc said successful a missive released Saturday that summarizes her aesculapian past and status.

Dr. Joshua Simmons, a U.S. Army colonel and doc to the vice president, wrote that Harris, 59, maintains a healthy, progressive manner and that her astir caller physical, successful April, was “unremarkable.”

She “possesses the carnal and intelligence resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to see those arsenic Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander successful Chief,” helium wrote successful a two-page letter.

Harris' run hopes to usage the infinitesimal to gully a opposition with Republican Donald Trump, who has released lone constricted accusation astir his wellness implicit the years, and rise questions astir his fittingness to serve, according to a run adjutant who spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon delicate matters.

Trump has released precise small wellness information, including aft his receptor was grazed by a slug during an assassination effort successful July.

Simmons, who said helium has been Harris’ superior attraction doc for the past 3½ years, said the vice president has a past of allergies and urticaria, besides known arsenic hives, for which she has been connected allergen immunotherapy for the past 3 years.

Simmons said Harris’ latest humor enactment and different trial results were “unremarkable.”

Also successful the report: Harris wears interaction lenses for mild nearsightedness; her household past includes maternal colon cancer; she is up to day connected preventive attraction recommendations, including having a colonoscopy and yearly mammograms.

As Harris' bureau released the aesculapian report, her run highlighted caller media reports raising questions astir Trump's wellness and intelligence acuity and his nonaccomplishment to supply accusation astir wellness presumption and aesculapian history.

Trump, 78, eagerly questioned President Joe Biden's wellness erstwhile the 81-year-old president was seeking reelection. Since Biden was replaced connected the summons with Harris, Trump's ain wellness has drawn much attention.

Last November, Trump marked Biden's day by releasing a missive from his doc that reported the erstwhile president was successful “excellent” carnal and intelligence health.

The letter, posted connected Trump’s societal media platform, contained nary details to enactment its claims — measures specified arsenic weight, humor unit and cholesterin levels, oregon the results of immoderate test.