Trump leaves the hospital in a van to greet supporters (then goes back inside). Controversy over his actual state of health

He promised and he did. A few minutes after announcing a “little surprise visitTo the supporters who have been guarding the military hospital where he is admitted for days, Donald trump left the facilities aboard his presidential suv to greet them. The tour lasted a few minutes, long enough to show up at hundreds of people crowded into the area (often without a mask) who began to encourage him to invoke another four years of presidency. Then the head of the White House returned to Walter Reed, where he could still stay all day waiting for the doctors to decide to discharge him as announced yesterday. In the video posted on social media, he claims to have “learned a lot about Covid, it was like a schoolAnd he thanked the hospital medical staff. But the controversy immediately broke out throughout the country, among experts who accuse him of endangering the life of agents (with him in the armored vehicle) and pointing a finger at all the omissions of doctors and White House personnel about his real health conditions.

“The presidential SUV is not alone bulletproof, but also hermetically sealed against a chemical attack“, Warns the doctor James Philips, professor at Georgetown University and analyst of Cnn who also frequents Walter Reed. “The risk of COVID-19 transmission Inside is as high as that of exiting medical procedures. The irresponsibility is amazing“He explained, underlining the risks to which the people who were with Trump aboard the ‘beast’ were exposed. “My thoughts are for him Secret Service forced to participate. ”The out-of-hospital visit was also a surprise to the group of journalists who follows the president in every move (as per tradition in the US). In a completely out of the ordinary way, none of them have been warned of the upcoming tour, testifying how the decision to leave the facility could have been made at the last minute directly by Trump. For this reason, the main US newspapers stress that the president still does not take the pandemic “seriously”, despite the fact that he himself has risked his life in recent hours. On the other hand, the doubts and mysteries about his real state of health do not give up. The news that emerged during the night (Italian time) is that Trump had suffered a quick test already last Thursday, proving positive. But he did not reveal the result pending the buffer. In fact, at night she appeared in. Fox without saying anything, simply confirming that one of the people closest to him (Hope hicks, ed) had been infected. He announced via Twitter the confirmation of positivity only on Friday night.

It remains to be seen whether he will actually be discharged today, as the medical staff treating him announced yesterday. The doubts are concentrated in the new treatment to which he was subjected, namely the “steroid therapy to prevent inflammation. “As confirmed by several US media outlets, it is a” life-saving “drug that is more serious cases of Covid patients and that acts against the cytokine storm, triggered by an excessive immune response in patients. The University of Oxford was the first to discover its effectiveness, so much so that last June the WHO urged to increase its production. The need for steroids like dexamethasone, therefore, combined with the high fever that the president had before admission and the two cases of oxygen crisis confirmed by his personal physician, suggests that in the last few hours he really risked his life. All hypotheses, since medical bulletins Posted by Walter Reed in recent days have often been fluctuating, if not contradictory. Doctors initially boasted optimism about their actual health conditions, without telling the millions of American citizens who have twice been forced to administer oxygen to its president. There was also no clarity on the fever, until a source within the White House (later identified in Mark Meadows) informed the press that “the vital functions of Trump were very worrying ”. At that time, your personal physician, Sean Conley, was forced to confirm that “the president not out of the woods yet“Until last night, when the new course change occurred.

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