02/10/2020 - 18:38
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, was hospitalized after being diagnosed positive for coronavirus and will remain
hospitalized "for the next few days,"
according to a White House spokesman.
"Following the recommendation of his hospital and experts, the president
will be working from the presidential offices"
of Walter Reed's
military hospital
"for the next few days," said spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany.
Trump received an eight-gram dose of the experimental antibody cocktail from pharmaceutical company Regeneron on Friday and remains "fatigued but in good spirits" hours after testing positive for COVID-19.
In a statement, the president's doctor at the White House, Sean Conley, explained that the president was administered this treatment as a "precautionary measure" after this morning he was diagnosed with the new coronavirus.
Specifically, Trump was given "a single eight-gram dose of Regeneron's polyclonal antibody cocktail and completed the intravenous infusion without incident," Conley explained.
In addition, the president has been taking "zinc, vitamin D, famotidine" -a medicine to treat ulcers or gastric reflux-, melatonin (a hormone to treat sleep disorders) and a daily aspirin, the doctor said.
"This afternoon, the president is still tired but in good spirits. A team of experts is evaluating him, and together we will make recommendations to the president and the first lady on the best next steps" in his treatment, added Conley.
Melania Trump, who also tested positive, "is still fine, with only a mild cough and headache, and the rest of (Trump's) family is fine and today they tested negative for SARS-CoV-2," concluded the doctor.
The Regeneron drug that Trump received, known as REGN-COV2, is part of an advanced phase clinical trial that has been carried out since July in the United States, Brazil, Mexico and Chile, to verify its effectiveness in the treatment of hospitalized patients. and not hospitalized with COVID-19.
The 74-year-old president meets several of the risk factors for developing more serious symptoms of COVID-19, due to his age, gender and obesity.
Trump has been a strong advocate for experimental treatments for COVID-19, receiving doses of hydroxychloroquine for two weeks in May aimed at preventing the disease, despite no scientific proof that this works.
In April, the president sparked controversy by suggesting at a White House press conference that ultraviolet light and disinfectant injections could be an effective treatment for the coronavirus, leading to an increase in poisoned people in the US. From exposure to chemicals.
Trump has not tweeted since the early morning, when he announced that he had tested positive, and this Friday he let his vice president, Mike Pence, replace him in a telematic meeting with governors after his COVID-19 infection was confirmed, while his campaign announced the temporary suspension of their electoral acts.
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