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Confusion remains about President Trump’s health. Rather than providing information thoughtfully, your personal physician presents himself as a fine-spoken “expert physician.”
Donald Trump supporters show their support for the president in front of Walter Reed National Military Hospital on October 3, 2020.
The team of doctors who have been caring for Donald Trump, who has Covid-19 since Friday, spoke for the second time Sunday of significant advances in the health of their prominent patient. But just like the day before, information provided by personal physician Sean Conley and his colleagues raised more questions than they answered. The effort, once openly admitted, to paint an optimistic picture was all too obvious. Conley even talked about Trump being discharged from hospital care on Monday, which seemed diametrically opposed to all other explanations about his treatment.
Secret
It is now clear that Conley gave an absolutely inaccurate account of Trump’s health on Saturday. Trump had a high fever and low blood oxygen saturation at least twice since Friday, which is why he was given extra oxygen. On Sunday, Conley stubbornly refused to answer questions about any damage to the president’s lung tissue or even to say whether Trump suffered from pneumonia.
However, he confirmed that in addition to the already potent treatment methods with an antibody cocktail and the antiviral drug Remdesivir, he had also administered a potent anti-inflammatory steroid on Saturday. Covid-19 is in most cases a respiratory disease, and Conley’s silence on the state of Trump’s lungs was even more egregious when he highlighted the “normal” functioning of the heart, liver and kidneys without asking the respect. This reinforces the suspicion that the pulmonary findings were not normal.
The effort to show Trump on the path to a successful recovery was also evident in a video message from the presidential suite at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, which the White House released Saturday night. In it, the president stressed that he was much better now, but also indirectly admitted for the first time that it was not just too cautious a move to get him to the military hospital outside Washington on Friday. The White House also released images allegedly showing Trump at work.
His personal physician Conley made a statement Saturday night to put the over-optimism of his first news conference Saturday morning into perspective. It confirmed what was already well known at the time: that Trump had yet to cross the mountain.
The fact that the public already knew, however, was not due to the medical team, who had officially reported it. It was an initially anonymous employee at the White House who first reported unadorned moments for the first time on Friday. A little later it turned out to be the White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows. After the medics press conference, he had just waited for the cameras to turn off and then contradicted Conley’s explanations.
How often, when the Trump administration is entangled in half-truths and falsehoods, it is unclear whether the confusion is a staging, a sophisticated plot with ulterior motives, a struggle between different centers of power in the White House, or simply an expression. incompetence. But the personal physician, naval officer, and physician with a hitherto impeccable reputation, has become the latest victim of Trump’s irrepressible urge to adjust reality to his ideas.
There are already question marks at the exact moment Trump learned of his infection. Two members of the medical team had provided information about his treatment on Saturday that was inconsistent with the official version, according to which Trump only learned of his infection on Thursday night. It is said to have been a slip, as was later stated, which is a bit strange given two independent statements from highly qualified doctors.
Until now, no one wanted to say when exactly Trump last tested negative for Sars-CoV-2 before that Thursday night. According to the official schedule, Trump would have been seriously ill the day after his initial diagnosis, which was questioned by several medical experts.
Infections spread
Meanwhile, the list of people close to Trump who were infected continued to grow. At least twelve, including three Republican senators, the party leader, his campaign manager, and several White House advisers, had carelessly attended a White House celebration the week before, in which the Supreme Court candidate, Amy Coney Barrett, was officially named.
