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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – President of the United States (USA) Donald Trump has tested positive for corona (Covid-19) since last week. Not only he, his wife Melania, is also infected.
He was quarantined at the White House. But on Friday (2/10/2020) local time, he was transferred to a military hospital.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said it was because his condition was much worse than what officials announced to the public.
He said doctors recommended the president to the hospital after discovering that Trump had a fever and his oxygen levels were dropping rapidly.
Meadows made that comment in an interview with Fox News, as cited Reuters, Sunday (10/4/2020).
“I can tell you that the most important thing that we have seen is that (there is) no fever and the oxygen saturation levels are good,” Jeanine Pirro told the Fox show.
“Yesterday we were worried about that. You have a fever and your oxygen levels are dropping rapidly. However, typically, the president stands up and walks.
Even so, he said that since being taken to the hospital, Trump has shown extraordinary progress.
Trump is now 74 years old. He is said to be using dexamethasone, a steroid to reduce inflammation.
The medical team said Trump began steroid treatment when his oxygen levels were low. But they said Trump could be released from the hospital this Monday (5/9/2020).
Still, Dr. Daniel McQuillen, an infectious disease specialist at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, who was not involved in Trump’s treatment, said the fact that dexamethasone was used suggests that the president’s case was serious.
“What I heard in the description of the press conference shows that the president is suffering from a more serious illness than the generally optimistic image,” he told Reuters.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America says that dexamethasone benefits people with severe and even critical symptoms of Covid-19, by requiring additional oxygen.
Research also confirms that this drug will not be helpful or even harmful in people with milder cases of the disease.
“He will not go to a ‘house’ where there is no media treatment. Basically (definitely) there is an arena like the ‘hospital’ in the White House,” said another doctor, Dr. Walid Gellad, professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. .
Meanwhile, Trump’s surprise Sunday night cheered outside the hospital in his caravan. He greeted several supporters outside the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
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