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Drop the thing: Trump takes off his mask on the White House balcony. Image: keystone
Trump continues to downplay Corona: Americans don’t think it’s cool
There are many indications that Donald Trump is seriously ill with Covid-19. But the president pretends that nothing is a problem. Four weeks before the election, he doesn’t want to show any weakness.
What can not be, can not be. Donald Trump has always lived by this motto. Now he’s doing it too after the corona virus completely hit him and forced him to go to hospital bed. After his return to the White House on Monday, the president released a strange video urging Americans not to fear the virus.
Four weeks before the presidential election, Trump is far behind rival Joe Biden in the polls. The 73-year-old overweight president cannot and will not allow himself to show any weakness. Therefore, it cannot be that the “China virus” removes it from circulation.
On Friday, he is said to have resisted being admitted to the hospital, although the oxygen level in his blood had dropped to a worrying level and he had to be supplied with oxygen. According to CNN, his doctors had to persuade him not to leave the hospital on Sunday. The next day he was unstoppable.
“A bit in unknown territory”
His health is kept secret. Personal physician Sean Conley avoided specific responses during his appearance in front of the media on Monday: “I wish I could say more, but I can’t.” After all, he admitted that Trump “is not out of the woods yet.” Be “cautiously optimistic,” Conley said.
Faced with the therapies the patient received at such an early stage, he had to admit that he is “a bit in uncharted territory. With this, Sean Conley alludes to the cumulative drug treatment that made the experts scowl. And of “normal” Covid patients they can’t even dream.
The only patient on the planet
“You are not afraid?” I wish all Americans had access to the same health care as you, but that is not the case, “Democratic Senator Robert Menendez from New Jersey tweeted to the President. In fact, Trump’s video must look like a slap in the face to the victims’ families. of Covid.
“The president is likely to be the only patient on the planet ever to receive such a combination of drugs,” Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine at George Washington University, told CNN. The cocktail includes, among other things, antibody therapy that has previously only been tested in 275 patients.
Trump was “in great danger”
The steroid dexamethasone, which should only be given in severe illness, caused a stir. In fact, it reduces the risk of death, Jonathan Reiner said. At the same time, in a series of tests, 23 percent of all dexamethasone recipients died within a month, “almost a quarter of the patients.”
For Reiner, comprehensive therapy only allows to conclude that, in the opinion of his doctors, the president was “in great danger.” Still, Donald Trump wants to get back in business. He said he would like to campaign again soon and participate in the upcoming television debate with Joe Biden on October 15, he announced Monday.
Yet the American people don’t seem to like his masterpiece. In a Reuters poll, 65 percent said Trump likely would not have been infected if he had taken the virus more seriously. And according to a CNN poll, 60 percent disapprove of his handling of Corona. It is the worst value since the pandemic began.
Biden wants to hear from the experts
Particularly disadvantageous for the president: With its infection, the coronavirus is once again dominating the headlines. And with him the issue he wanted to avoid in the electoral campaign. The effect is already noticeable: In polls and forecasting models, Joe Biden has expanded his lead over the starter in recent days.
The Democrat continues to campaign Monday in the beleaguered state of Florida. Before leaving, Biden stressed that he would do whatever the experts say, even in light of the upcoming debate with Trump. Difficult days await him, because despite returning to the medically well-equipped White House, he has not made it over the mountain.
The impending disaster
Some Covid patients who were prematurely discharged from the hospital experienced a relapse that included an emergency admission to the clinic. For Trump’s election campaign, this would likely be the worst case scenario. According to the Washington Post, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends a quarantine of up to 20 days in severe cases.
Meanwhile, blasphemers interpret Trump’s optimism as a result of the possible side effects of his drugs, especially dexamethasone. These include euphoria, confusion, and mental instability. However, that is a permanent condition with Trump.
