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WASHINGTON – Covid-struck President Donald Trump is “very well,” his doctors said Saturday, though a source with knowledge of his health expressed concern about his condition.
In the first official update on the president’s condition since he was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday, doctors were optimistic about his progress.
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“At this time, the team and I are extremely pleased with the progress the president has made,” said White House physician Sean Conley, adding that the president has been “fever-free for more than 24 hours.”
“We have monitored his heart function, his kidney function, his liver function. All of that is normal,” added Sean Dooley, another member of Trump’s medical team.
But a source familiar with the president’s health painted a less optimistic account.
“The president’s vital signs over the past 24 hours were very worrying and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We are not yet on a clear path to a full recovery,” the source said.
Conley dodged questions from reporters about whether Trump had ever received oxygen treatment before revealing that the president did not receive oxygen on Thursday or at any time since he arrived at Walter Reed.
He said Trump had “only 72 hours left at diagnosis now,” implying he was known to be ill a day before his test result was announced.
But the White House later clarified that Conley meant that Saturday was the third day since the president’s positive test result Thursday night.
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Shortly after Trump reached Walter Reed, Conley said in a memo that the president was starting a course of the therapeutic drug remdesivir and had received an eight-gram dose of an experimental cocktail of polyclonal antibodies.
Conley would not put a “hard date” on Trump’s discharge from the hospital or reveal the president’s temperature.
