Donald Trump’s medical bulletin after the first night at Walter Reed military hospital for covid-19 is apparently reassuring but has raised more than a doubt with a source familiar with the health condition of the commander in chief who painted a more alarming. “The president is very well,” White House doctor Seam Conley assured in a press conference, surrounded by a staff of ten Reed doctors, all wearing masks and white coats. “Right now the team and I are extremely happy with his progress”, he continued, reporting that Trump “has been fever-free for 24 hours” and that “heart, kidney and liver functions are normal”.
Plus, he added, he doesn’t need oxygen now. “He’s in a good mood, he said he feels like he could get out of here today,” said the staff, also saying that the patient asked for hydroxychloroquine, the controversial treatment he promoted at the start of the pandemic, but that he’s not hiring it. “It’s going well, I think,” the president himself tweeted that night. The doctors, however, explained that they are unable to predict the timing of discharge from the hospital, fueling the uncertainty affecting the country, the elections and the markets.
Uncertainty compounded by an ‘insider’, who after the briefing confided to reporters a less rosy situation: “The president’s vital functions have been very worrying in the last 24 hours and the next 48 hours will be crucial in terms of care. We are not yet. on a clear path to full recovery “.
The US media identified White House chief of staff Mark Meadows as the initially anonymous source who reported a clinical picture to some reporters in contrast to the official medical bulletin on Donald Trump’s condition for covid-19. “The president’s vital functions have been very troubling in the past 24 hours and the next 48 hours will be crucial in terms of care. We are not yet on a clear path to a full recovery,” the source said.
Neither age (74) nor the ascertained obesity play in favor of Trump. The press conference also raised some doubts. The first concerns the timing of the diagnosis, which Conley traced back 72 hours ago, that is to say on Wednesday, before when the news of the President’s Covid positive response was made known on Thursday night. The White House specified that Conley meant that today is the third day from positive test.
The second question is related to the fact that the doctor dribbled the question of whether Trump needed oxygen earlier today. A hypothesis re-launched by CNN according to which respiratory support was necessary on Friday. Doubts that reinforce the controversy over the lack of transparency of the White House on the health conditions of the president, who is currently being treated with remdesivir and with another experimental therapy: a cocktail of synthetic polyclonal antibodies. As for the first lady Melania, who is also infected, “she is fine” and “is convalescing at home”, the doctors said. Trump is the first president to be hospitalized after Ronald Reagan, who was injured in an attack 39 years ago. On that occasion, however, the powers passed to his deputy George HW Bush.
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