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The medical team that treats the US president, Donald Trump, in a military hospital assured this Saturday that the president is evolving “very well”, while his Chief of Staff said that on Friday there was great concern about his condition and the next 48 hours will be “critical” to know the impact of Covid-19 on his health.
The president’s personal doctor, Sean Conley, said today at a press conference that the president woke up this morning with positive signs in his recovery, not registering fever, not requiring oxygen and being active and optimistic from the presidential suite of the Walter Reed military hospital, on the outskirts of Washington, where he was transferred yesterday afternoon.
Conley tried to present an optimistic picture and did not want to go into detail about the reasons that led to the decision to enter Trump on Friday, less than 24 hours after it was made public that he had tested positive for Covid-19.
According to him White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, the “vital signs of the president in the last 24 hours were very worrying and the next 48 hours will be critical when it comes to his care.”
In the opinion of Meadows, whose comments were distributed to reporters accredited to the White House anonymously until it was revealed that they had been recorded in a video feed, the president not yet “on a clear path to recovery”, some cautions that were also shown by members of the Walter Reed medical team today at their press conference.
“We have started advanced therapies earlier than in a normal patient, but at the moment it is difficult to say where he (the president) is. We evaluate the situation daily: Do you need to be here, what do you need and where are you going? “Said Conley, who recalled that Trump has risk factors, such as his age (74 years) and slightly overweight.
The doctors detailed that they closely monitor Trump’s heart and kidney constants and that for the moment both organs are functioning normally.
Trump is getting a five-day treatment with the antiviral Redemsivir from Gilead Sciences and on Friday he was supplied with the antibody cocktail from the pharmaceutical company Regeneron.
According to Conley, the president is in a good mood and has even said that he feels capable of leaving the hospital today, but the doctors will maintain their observation until they make sure that there are no unknowns about his evolution and it is determined that he can receive the care and surveillance he requires from the White House.
CONFUSION ABOUT DETAILS
Conley said Trump was only coughing and fatigued this Saturday morning, did not need supplemental oxygen and was still working with his chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
However, when asked if Trump had to receive oxygen yesterday, Conley limited himself to saying that he has not needed it today or since he arrived at the hospital.
According to the newspaper The New York Times, on Friday Trump began to experience breathing difficulties and your blood oxygen levels droppedTherefore, oxygen was supplied and it was decided that the most appropriate thing was to transfer him to the Walter Reed military hospital, where the president receives more extensive care and has a work area.
The first lady, Melania Trump, remains in the White House and shows no complications, after it was confirmed that, like her husband, she had been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which has killed more than 208,000 people in the United States.
There are also doubts about whether Trump kept his schedule of commitments on Thursday despite being diagnosed with the pathogen that causes Covid-19. At today’s press conference, Conley pointed out that 72 hours have passed since the diagnosis, which would mean that Trump met with a hundred donors in Bedminster (New Jersey) knowing that he was infected.
The White House later corrected the time references given by Conley and assured that it was referring to the “third day” and not to 72 hours.
Conley recalled that after confirming on Thursday afternoon that Trump’s close adviser Hope Hicks was infected with the new coronavirus, they decided to repeat tests to detect SARS-CoV-2. The doctor then began to detect “clinical indications” of Covid-19 and at night they received confirmation from a PCR test that the president had been infected.
A SPROUT AT THE DOME OF POWER
The contagion of Trump, the first lady and her adviser is not the only one that has affected the power elite in the United States and at least three senators have tested positive by Covid-19.
This has forced the Republican Majority Leader of the Upper House, Republican Mitch McConnell, to delay return to work sessions for two weeks until Oct. 19, seriously jeopardizing the possibility of urgently confirming Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court justice before the Nov. 3 election.
Precisely, at the presentation of Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s candidate, last Saturday 150 guests gathered in the rose garden of the White House without social distance and shaking hands and kissing each other.
At least seven people and three journalists who attended that event have tested positive for COVID-19, including the Republican Senators Mike Lee and Thom Tillis, former Presidential Advisor Kellyanne Conway and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
There is the added circumstance that both Christie and Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepien, who has also been infected with coronavirus, helped Trump prepare the presidential debate last Tuesday against Democratic rival Joe Biden, who has tested negative. .
