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After a weekend marked by conflicting information about Donald Trump’s illness, White House physician Sean Conley on Sunday was given the thankless task of resolving all the ambiguities. It didn’t work out so well.
Conley declined to answer a simple question about whether Trump received an oxygen supply over the weekend. We do not receive clear information on when Trump first learned he was infected.
In an amazing statement Conley explained that he was deliberately trying to present positive information about Trump’s condition because he “did not want to provide information that takes the disease in another direction,” as if the disease itself is affected by what Conley says. The statement was interpreted by medical experts and the White House press to mean that Conley made the assessment that Trump himself is at risk of becoming more ill or behaving more irrationally if his medical experts do not attempt to present the state. health in the most optimistic way possible.
Although the White House medical experts say Trump is doing very well, they have also said that he is receiving drugs such as dexamethasone, which is only recommended for the seriously ill. According to other medical experts who have treated patients with covid-19, dexamethasone should be used exclusively for patients who are seriously ill and use a respirator or oxygen supply.
Sunday’s press conference shows that the truth itself has become the first victim of Trump’s illness.
CNN Washington correspondent Dana Bash compared Conley’s remarks to “Baghdad Bob.” Maggie Haberman of the New York Times wrote that “the lies are amazing.”
Conflicting information from the White House it also runs the risk of making it harder to track and stop the spread of infection, which can claim more lives. We still do not know when Trump was first informed of his positive diagnosis and how many may have been infected by him since then. 12 employees have already received positive test results. In addition, a dozen people who worked during the television debate this week have also been infected.
Joe Biden is also at risk of infection. The first tests he did this week were negative, but according to medical experts, in just one week we can know for sure whether Biden actually avoided infection after staying in the same room as Trump during a noisy two-hour debate.
Hundreds of people who worked close to Trump in the White House are also concerned that they are infected.
– There are several hundred who work in the White House buildings and many have families with high-risk individuals. “Since it started, we have not received a single email informing employees of what is happening,” a senior White House official told New York Magazine.
Contradictory information from The White House is particularly alarming as the United States now, for the third time since March, is experiencing a sharp increase in infections. This week, the worst increase was reported nationwide since July.
Trump also doesn’t appear to be the only high-ranking Republican who has continued to meet people after testing positive. Senator Ron Johnson was sitting in a car on his way to an event called Oktoberfest, organized by the Republican Party in Ozaukee, Wisconsin, on Friday night when he was informed that he had been infected. Johnson still chose to continue the party, where he may have met hundreds of people. Wisconsin is one of the states where the spread of the virus is currently increasing the most in the United States.
At least 708 Americans died Saturday in the covid-19 suites. Since the pandemic hit the United States earlier this year, 209,271 Americans have died from the infection. According to the CDC, about 232,000 Americans will have died by mid-October.
