Destiny week for Trump after car ride among supporters

Of: Johan edgar

Published: October 05, 2020 at 9.44 am

Donald Trump ended a dramatic weekend by driving his jubilant supporters out of the hospital.

Now a fateful week awaits the president, who expects to be dismissed today.

– If he stays after Tuesday, then he has the worst in front of him, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows will tell top Republicans according to Vanity Fair.

For the second night in a row, Swedish time, Donald Trump last night posted a video from inside Walter Reed Hospital that was part pepper for his supporters, part words about how well the election campaign is going and part information about how well it is. is doing.

In last night’s video, the president looked much more like himself than in the previous video and was speaking freely. Minutes later, he surprised his noisy supporters outside the hospital and was thrown out onto the street, waving from the car window.

Criticism of the car trip

The fans cheered, waved their flags and shouted. But not everyone was equally amused.

“The president’s car is not only bulletproof, it is also hermetically sealed to resist chemical attack. The risk of spreading COVID-19 is as high as it can be outside of medical procedures. The irresponsibility is amazing. My thoughts go to the Secret Service, who was forced to play along, “writes James P. Phillips, a physician at Walter Reed Hospital and also director of emergency medicine at George Washington Hospital. On twitter.

Phillips also writes that everyone who rode in the car with the president must now be quarantined for 14 days and is at risk of getting sick or dying due to political theater.

“It’s crazy,” he concludes.

And the same argument was used by many political experts in the American media overnight in subsequent analyzes, despite the bodyguards in the car wearing protective suits, goggles and mouth guards.

“This is one of the most irresponsible I’ve seen in my life,” Kathleen Sebelius, US Secretary of Health under Obama, told CNN.

She believes that the President of the United States, if there is one, should lead by example and show the public that they should take quarantine seriously when sick.

Following the criticism, the White House issued a written statement announcing that Trump’s medical team had previously approved the car. And new photos of Trump were sent from inside Walter Reed. He was then told to hold a conference room conference call with, among others, Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

But it was a controversial ending to a dramatic weekend full of contradictions and confusion on the part of the president’s staff and medical team. On Sunday, his medical team gave hopeful information about Trump’s health. They said that the president is free of fever, alert, responded well to the treatment and if all goes well he can be discharged from the hospital as early as Monday.

The message of the doctors

Meanwhile, President Sean Conley’s doctor provided new information about how ill Trump was on Friday. He said Trump had a high fever, decreased blood oxygen and was given oxygen before the helicopter ride to Walter Reed.

A much more dramatic message than last Friday, when the hospital stay was attributed to a desire to be on the safe side despite the president being said to be “exhausted but in a good mood.”

The doctor also said Trump was treated with a strong steroid that, according to guidelines, should only be given to the sickest patients, including intensive care connected to a ventilator. This increased speculation that something was wrong with the cheery tone of the doctors.

According to CNN, Trump is “the only person in the world” who has received the combination of drugs with which he has been treated since receiving the positive message from Covid on Thursday.

The week of destiny awaits

Regardless of the speculation, a fateful week awaits Donald Trump both in terms of his health and the possibility of resuming the electoral campaign.

Here are some benchmarks to look forward to this week:

⁠ Monday. If all goes well as the doctors and Trump hope, he could possibly be discharged Monday and continue his quarantine at the White House. Then also the “48 critical hours regarding the care of the president” of which the chief of staff Mark Meadows spoke on Saturday. However, this does not mean that you can start meeting people again and participate in campaign meetings.

⁠ Tuesday It’s the date that Mark Meadows established as central to Trump’s health in conversations with top Republicans, according to investigative reporter and author Gabriel Sherman’s article in Vanity Fair.

“If Trump can be discharged from the hospital no later than Tuesday, then he has gone through the worst. But if he stays after Tuesday, then he has the worst ahead of him,” the chief of staff is said to have said according to a source. .

Important discussion

⁠ Wednesday. Then comes the important vice-presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris in Salt Lake City, Utah. Despite the large outbreak of crown in Trump’s immediate circle, nothing has been said that the debate would be suspended. On the other hand, candidates must be further apart than originally intended.

The debate is likely to focus largely on the corona outbreak in the White House and a lot of pressure will be put on Pence to answer any critical questions that may arise. Mike Pence has also been heavily criticized for his decision not to suspend the campaign and to self-quarantine after being in close contact with many who have now been diagnosed as ill, including Trump, despite testing negative during the end of week.

– He’s going to hit the track. And she has a packed schedule, Jason Miller, a campaign advisor, tells CNN.

Rochelle Walensky, an infectious disease specialist at Harvard University, is highly critical in an interview with the New York Times.

– There is no reason in all the world why Pence should be anywhere other than his home. He’s been sitting in a sea of ​​people with COVID-19, she says.

Two-part disease

⁠ The rest of the week. According to most observers, Trump was one of the Republicans who were hit by a possible super spreader during Amy Coney Barrett’s ceremony at the White House last Saturday, just over a week ago. He developed the first symptoms about five days later, which is the usual incubation period for COVID-19. In that case, it’s been twelve days since the Thursday you got infected. And if the disease hasn’t entered another, more aggressive phase, it begins to statistically approach the time when it should be out of harm’s way.

Covid-19 is a two-part disease, according to Helen Boucher, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at a Boston hospital, who spoke to Bloomberg about Trump’s condition.

– A very small proportion become ill around day eight, the week after infection. Your cough or fever will get worse and your blood oxygenation will decrease. These are the people who end up in the hospital. And of this group, an even smaller portion that gets sick enough to end up in the intensive care unit, Helen Boucher tells Bloomberg.

– We know that among people who become seriously ill, it occurs between days eight and ten.

Other challenges

If Trump succeeds in defeating the virus and it is no longer contagious, the second debate against Joe Biden on October 15 may still be relevant. The stakes are high. According to several opinion polls released on Sunday, Trump lost even more to Biden after the first debate last week.

In a Reuters / Ipsos poll, Democrats show the biggest lead in more than a month. 51 percent would have voted for Joe Biden if there were elections today and 41 percent would have voted for Trump.

But Trump has other challenges besides his own health and the latest state of public opinion. His campaign manager, Bill Stepien, is infected with the virus. And his two former advisers who helped him prepare for the first debate, Kellyanne Conway and Chris Christie, also have covid-19. The latter is so affected that he has been hospitalized.

In addition, there is the Washington Post information source on Sunday that says the mood in the White House staff has been characterized by distrust since the crown crisis hit. There, several sources ensure that employees no longer dare to trust each other. And furthermore, both Donald Trump himself and several employees must be really mad at Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after he voluntarily told the press contingent outside of Walter Reed anonymously that the president’s illness was more serious than he was. the medical team gave.

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Published: October 05, 2020 at 9.44 am

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