WASHINGTON. 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 at 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.
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“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 beginning 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 that weighs on the country, the elections and the markets. Uncertainty aggravated 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 for a full recovery ». Neither age (74) nor the ascertained obesity play in Trump’s favor. 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 Wednesday, before when the news of the president’s Covid positivity was made known on Thursday night.
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The White House specified that Conley meant that today is the third day since the test was positive. 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, also infected, “she is fine” and “is convalescing at home,” the doctors reported.
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. “Donald” instead decided not to hand over the helm to Mike Pence and to remain at the helm of the nation from the presidential suite of Walter Reed, presenting himself to his fans as a warrior who challenges the nemesis of Covid. From his hospital bed he hasn’t given up even tweeting and campaigning: “The doctors, the nurses and all the great Walter Reed Medical center, and the staff of as many incredible institutions that have joined them, are extraordinary! Huge progress has been made in the past 6 months in fighting this plague. With their help I feel good! ”He wrote, before inviting dem and republicans to work together on new aid against the pandemic.
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But his campaign becomes complicated: campaign manager Bill Stepien and a dozen other people, including three senators, are also infected, risking to endanger the confirmation of conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett in the supreme court before the vote of 3 November. The initial outbreak of the infection may have been the ceremony last Saturday at the White House to announce his appointment. Trump can only hope that his illness will have an emotional effect on voters, after the bipartisan chorus of greetings, even abroad. But media and experts believe it could actually have a penalizing effect, having turned him into a victim of his reckless boldness towards the virus. And on social media the tide of good wishes for his death is growing, so much so that Twitter has been forced to remove thousands of funeral parlors.
