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reOnald Trump doesn’t drink alcohol; however, he does not seem to have any problem experimenting with drugs. During the last days, Trump seems to have been ingesting everything you can get, including dexamethasone, remdesivir, zinc, vitamin D, famotidine, melatonin, aspirin and REGN-COV2, according to the president’s physician and medical team. The antiviral remdesivir has not been shown to be effective in treating Covid-19, while REGN-COV2, an experimental antibody cocktail, has been tested in only a handful of people. Dexamethasone, meanwhile, is a steroid that has been shown to be effective in seriously ill patients, but is potentially risky for those with milder cases.
Since testing positive for Covid-19, Trump has insisted that he is doing it brilliantly. On Monday, shortly before leaving Walter Reed Medical Center to return to the White House, he tweeted that he was “feel really good! … Better than 20 years ago!How, many people have wondered, square Trump’s cheerful remarks with the serious drugs he is supposedly taking?
One theory is VIP syndrome: a phenomenon in which prominent people receive different medical care because doctors are too enthusiastic about treating them or they give in to ill-advised demands. Some experts have suggested that Trump is not seriously ill, but has insisted on unnecessary treatment. On the other hand, of course, he may also be very ill, but he has intimidated the doctors into discharging him from the hospital.
VIPs can be demanding. Michael Jackson, for example, died from a fatal cocktail of drugs in his body; his doctor, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, had been giving him a surgical anesthetic because the insomniac singer was convinced it was the only way he could sleep. The thing about Trump, however, is that he must have the constitution of an ox. How else do you explain the fact that you have reached the age of 74 while avoiding exercise (because you think your body is like a battery and exercise depletes it) and subsisting on junk food and gallons of Diet Coke?
But while Trump may not succumb to VIP syndrome, there will be a lot of collateral damage. By the time Trump got home, he removed his mask and proceeded to breathe infected air everywhere. White House sources told ABC News on Monday that there is “a huge uproar” in the administration as aides wait to see who will be the next to test positive. Some are apparently trying not to go to work. Can you blame them? At least 13 people in Trump’s circle have tested positive for Covid-19; that’s more than four times the number of active coronavirus cases in New Zealand. Even Donald Trump Jr seems to be nervous. According to Vanity Fair, Don Jr has been urging his brothers to perform an intervention because their father is “acting crazy.” Which could be a side effect of all the drugs Trump is taking.
There you go No one seems to have any idea how sick the President of the United States really is. However, we do know that the man is high on steroids and coughing distance from the nuclear soccer ball. The writers behind 2020 have done their best so far. Let’s hope they don’t end this Earth season with a big dexamethasone-induced explosion.
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