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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Saturday (October 4) that Donald Trump’s health, including a drop in his blood oxygen level, had left the president’s doctors “very concerned,” but that it had improved and there was never a risk that it would have to. hand over power.
Trump received a single dose of Regeneron’s antibody cocktail, according to a letter from White House physician Sean Conley AFP / JIM WATSON
WASHINGTON (AP) – White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Saturday (Oct. 3) that Donald Trump’s health, including a drop in his blood oxygen level, had left the president’s doctors “very worried”, but that he had improved and that there was never any risk that he would. has to hand over power.
Meadows’ comments to Fox News capped a day of comings and goings in which conflicting reports on the president’s health following his COVID-19 diagnosis created a murky understanding of the leader’s actual physical condition.
“He has made incredible improvements since yesterday morning, when I know that several of us, the doctor and I, were very concerned,” Meadows said.
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Earlier in the day, a source familiar with the president’s health – later named in the US media as none other than Meadows – had given a contradictory assessment saying that “the president’s vital signs over the past 24 hours were very concerning.” .
The statement also appeared to disagree with an assessment by White House doctors that the president was “very well.”
Meadows appeared to clarify Saturday night that the ill-health comments had applied to the day before.
“Yesterday morning, we were very concerned … He had a fever and his blood oxygen level had dropped rapidly,” Meadows told Fox.
However, “there was never a consideration and not even a risk of a power transition,” Meadows said.
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On Saturday night, White House physician Sean Conley said Trump was “not out of the woods yet,” but that the medical team was “cautiously optimistic.”
Meadows echoed a similar sentiment, stating that it was “very, very optimistic, based on current results.”
The president posted a video on Twitter Saturday night in which he appeared relaxed in an open-necked shirt and blue jacket, telling viewers that he would “be back soon,” but acknowledging that the next crucial days would be “the true test “.
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