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Donald Trump could be discharged from the hospital and return to the White House on Monday if he continues to advance his treatment, doctors accompanying the president of the United States, who has been hospitalized with Covid-19 since Friday, said on Sunday (2 ).
Dr. Sean Conley and his team gave an interview on the evolution of the disease. Said There were two times when Trump’s oxygen saturation dropped: one on Friday and one on Saturday. He even received oxygen to help him breathe. After that, the president got better again.
Trump doctors report ‘ups and downs’, oxygen use and possible discharge on Monday (5)
At no time was it serious, the doctor said, it was never below 94%. The current level is 98% according to the medical team. Trump has not had a fever since Friday.
Reporters asked why White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said the medical team was concerned.
Conley said that in his first press conference he tried to reflect the positive attitude of the president and thus omitted that Trump had received oxygen on Friday.
“I did not want to give any information that could divert the course of the disease in another direction, and in doing so, it seemed that we were trying to hide something, which is not necessarily true.”
Medication for critically ill patients
Trump even received dexamethasone, a drug that improves the chances of oxygen-depleted patients, but is not given to patients with only mild symptoms, as it decreases the body’s ability to fight coronavirus.
Brian Garibaldi, one of the team’s doctors, said the first dose was administered on Saturday and the plan is to continue the drug for now.
The history of clinical course
This is the second press conference given by health professionals led by Sean Conley. On Saturday they said Trump’s symptoms were tiredness, a stuffy nose and a cough, that the president was in the process of improving.
At the time, reporters asked specifically about oxygen and he did not respond.
Conley later published a Trump health bulletin in which the doctor said the president had “made substantial improvement, although he’s not out of the woods yet.”
The document also says that the president took a new dose of the antiviral remdesivir and continues without fever and without supplemental oxygen, with a saturation level between 96% and 98% throughout the day.
Still, according to the statement, Trump spent the afternoon working, got up and moved around the suite without difficulty, but the doctor warns that the team remains “cautiously optimistic.”
Melania Trump, the first lady, is not hospitalized. She has mild symptoms and is isolated in the White House.
