Update! Did Trump’s Condition Get Worse, Given Dexamethasone?

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – President of the United States (US) Donald Trump positive corona (Covid-19) since last week. Not only himself, his wife Melania, is also infected.

He was quarantined at the White House. But Friday (2/10/2020) local time, he was taken to a military hospital.

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said that it was because his condition was far worse than what officials announced to the public.

He said doctors recommended the president to hospital after discovering Trump had a fever and his oxygen levels were dropping rapidly.

Meadows made that comment in an interview with Fox News, as quoted Reuters, Sunday (4/10/2020).

“I can tell you that the biggest thing we’ve seen is (has) no fever now, and the oxygen saturation levels are good,” she told Fox’s Jeanine Pirro show.

“Yesterday we were concerned about it. He has a fever and his oxygen levels are dropping rapidly. However, in typical fashion, the president stands up and walks around.”

Even so, he said that since being taken to the hospital, Trump has shown extraordinary progress.

Trump is now 74 years old. He’s been said to be using dexamethasone, a steroid drug to reduce inflammation.

The medical team said Trump started treatment with steroids when his oxygen levels were low. But they said Trump could be discharged from the hospital this Monday (5/9/2020).

Even so, Dr. Daniel McQuillen, an infectious disease specialist at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, who was not involved in Trump’s treatment, said the fact that dexamethasone was used indicates that the president’s case was severe.

“What I heard in the press conference description shows that the President is suffering from a more severe illness than the generally optimistic picture,” he told Reuters.

The Infectious Disease Society of America said dexamethasone benefits people with severe and even critical symptoms of Covid-19, by requiring extra oxygen.

Research also confirms that this drug, will not be helpful or even dangerous, in people with milder cases of disease.

“He will not go to a ‘home’ where there is no media treatment. Basically (definitely) there is an arena like the ‘hospital’ in the White House,” said another doctor Dr. Walid Gellad, professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

Meanwhile, Trump’s surprise Sunday evening cheered in front of the hospital in his motorcade. He greeted a number of supporters in front of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

(Head / head)

– .