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Donald Trump briefly left Sunday from the wing of the Walter Reed Military Hospital, where he has been hospitalized since Friday, to take a short ride in a slowly moving van and greet a large number of his fans outside the hospital. in the White House.
To everyone’s surprise, a convoy of black vans appeared in front of the hospital gates early in the evening, and Trump, wearing a mask, greeted his many supporters, who had settled in, through the closed window of the presidential car. outside the hospital. weekend.
The measure drew strong criticism, from doctors and not only, especially because it endangered the Secret Service agents who were accompanying the White House tenant on the walk.
“Everyone in the vehicle who made this completely useless presidential trip should be in quarantine for 14 days,” said James Phillips of the George Washington University School of Medicine. “They can get sick. They can die. For the sake of the political theater. Because Trump ordered them to risk their lives for this theater. Paranoia.”
Zick Emanuel, chairman of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, said on Twitter that “being forced to board undercover agents in a car with a patient who has COVID-19, with windows closed, exposes them for no reason. to the risk of infection. Why; For a communication firework “.
After walking in the presidential armored vehicle, which is also hermetically sealed to avoid the risk of chemical or biological weapons attack, the White House announced that the president has returned to Walter Reed’s special ward where he is being treated.
“I learned a lot about COVID, I learned from the experience himself, it is a school of life,” Trump said earlier in a video uploaded to his Twitter account, thanking doctors and “great patriots” and fans. in front of the hospital.
After two nights at Walter Reed, he was moderately optimistic about his surroundings on Sunday, although the White House chief physician finally admitted that initially, his patient’s condition was much more serious than he said.
In a dramatic change from what he said on Saturday, Sean Conley confirmed that Trump did indeed need oxygen for an hour at the White House on Friday, which was considered a cause for great concern and led to the decision to be hospitalized.
He had not revealed this fact, preferring to project a more “optimistic” picture, although the Secretary General of the Presidency, Mark Mendows, had revealed to journalists that Trump’s situation in the previous 24 hours was extremely worrying.
Dr. Conley also announced that on Saturday “morning” another event occurred, the drop in the oxygen level in the body of the Republican president.
Also on Saturday, doctors gave Trump another drug, the third known, dexamethasone, a corticosteroid effective in severe cases of COVID-19, in addition to remedesivir and the experimental Regeneron cocktail on Friday. .
However, the US president’s doctors assured on Sunday that the improvement is such that they are now preparing for Trump’s return to the White House, where he can continue with the remedisivir injections, possibly starting today.
Conley diligently refrained from talking about the state of Trump’s lungs.
Trump is safe in the hospital, but he works, he holds the wheel “firmly in his hands,” White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien told CBS. He resumed tweeting and phone calls, according to Eric’s son, Jason Miller’s adviser and Fox News host Janine Piro.
The 74-year-old president uploaded photos of himself “at work” from the hospital and recorded two videos on Walter Reed. In one, he admitted that “the real test” awaits him in the next few days: COVID-19 patients are known to experience severe deterioration after the initial phase of tolerable symptoms.
Regarding the campaign, a poll conducted for the NBC / Wall Street Journal after Trump’s debate with Joe Biden, but before being admitted to the hospital, makes the difference: the Democratic candidate has 53% voting intentions, the president 39%.
Meanwhile, the fight for the lack of protection of the White House and the Trump family continues, but also the decision of the presidency, Mike Pence, to continue the electoral campaign for November 3. Pence will assume the presidency if Trump cannot serve.
Source: AFP, DPA, Reuters, ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
