US President Donald Trump returned to the White House Monday night after spending four days in a military hospital where he was treated for coronavirus.
Trump, 77, looked healthy. Demonstrating his physical condition, Trump in an unusual decision climbed the stairs of the South Portico, instead of the elevators, to go to his residence. He resigned from journalists.
The President, after removing his mask, stood on the porch in front of South Lawns for a few minutes and greeted Marine One.
Previously, he was discharged from Walter Reed National Medical Center after doctors treating him found he was fit enough to return home.
“We will be back to Campaign Trail soon !!! Fake news only shows fake polls, ”Trump said in a tweet moments before leaving Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, a Maryland suburb of Washington DC.
His former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the president was strong and optimistic. “She is a fighter and she will not stop fighting this virus or surrender to the liberal mob and strive to destroy our country,” Sanders said in a tweet.
Before boarding Marine One at Walter Reed, Trump told reporters he was feeling fine.
White House physician Dr. Sean Conley told reporters at the Walter Reed National Military Center that Trump has exceeded all standard hospital discharge criteria and has received another dose of remdesivir in his Covid-19 treatment.
“Over the past 24 hours, the president has continued to improve. You have met or exceeded all standard criteria for hospital discharge. He’s had another dose of remdesivir, you’re here today, and then we plan to take him home, ”she said. “It has been more than 72 hours since his last fever. Oxygen levels, including ambulatory saturations and your work of breathing or all normal. He may not be completely out of the woods, but the team and I agree that all of our evaluations and, more importantly, his clinical status support the president’s safe return home, where he will be surrounded by world-class medical care. 24/7 globally. ”Dr. Conley said Dr. Sean Dooley, a pulmonary intensive care physician, told reporters that the president is still doing very well.
Her vital signs this morning, her temperature was 98.1, her blood pressure 134 and 78, and her respiratory rate 17 per minute. His heart rate was 68 beats per minute and his last Oxo hemoglobin saturation was 97 percent in ambient air, he said.
It does not currently support any respiratory problems, the doctor said.
According to Dr. Brian Garibaldi, director of the Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit, the president received his third dose of remdesivir on Sunday night and tolerated that infusion without difficulty.
His kidney and liver function remained normal, he said.
“Our plan is to give him the fourth dose of remdesivir tonight, before he returns to the White House, and we have arranged to administer the fifth and final dose of his course of treatment at the White House tomorrow night,” Garibaldi added . .
“Keep taking dexamethasone over and over again. The plan for today is to keep getting up and out of bed, eating, drinking and working however I can, ”she said.
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