Trump's doctor, Sean Conley, during Monday's announcement.Chris Kleponis / POOL / EFE
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, decided to skip all the protocols on Monday and not wait for his medical team to announce his medical discharge.
Of course, via Twitter, the president wrote the following: “I will leave the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6.30 pm (New York time).
I feel very good!
Do not be afraid of the covid.
Do not let it dominate your life, ”the president wrote, despite the fact that more than 210,000 Americans have died from this disease, from which more than seven million Americans are infected.
Trump will continue his convalescence in the White House, but it is unknown if he will be in quarantine or will be related to his team.
Trump did not miss the opportunity to breastfeed and in that same message he declared that very good drugs had been developed under his Administration.
“I feel better than 20 years ago!” He said, as if he had drunk from the fountain of youth instead of being subjected to an aggressive experimental treatment.
I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 PM Feeling really good!
Don't be afraid of Covid.
Don't let it dominate your life.
We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge.
I feel better than I did 20 years ago!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2020
Shortly after the president's announcement came the long-awaited press conference of Trump's medical team, which once again walked on thin ice.
When asked by reporters if they had any concerns regarding his evolution, Dr. Sean Conley stated that they did, albeit highly nuanced.
For the president's doctor, it is still "in unexplored territory" because it is not known how a patient who is administered treatments as aggressive as those Trump has received (including an experimental antibody cocktail) evolves at such an early stage of the disease. disease.
For Conley, the key is to get through next weekend evolving well.
Despite the fact that the journalists insisted to know what was the last negative test of Trump, Conley refused to answer, citing protection of the information.
President Donald Trump demanded to return to the White House on Sunday without seeming to care that he had to receive oxygen last Friday and Saturday and that he was being treated with drugs that demonstrate the seriousness of the situation he is experiencing.
According to sources quoted by
CNN,
"Trump was fed up with the hospital" and, in his opinion, made him appear "weak."
Perhaps that is why the White House has embarked on a confusing communication about the president's health, full of contradictions and that have earned him very summary criticism.
Only due to the addiction of a president addicted to the spotlight and oblivious to the good of others, can one explain his daring to take a victorious drive in front of the fans who cheered him at the Walter Reed Military Hospital, outside of Washington.
It is reported that the Media is upset because I got into a secure vehicle to say thank you to the many fans and supporters who were standing outside of the hospital for many hours, and even days, to pay their respect to their President.
If I didn't do it, Media would say RUDE !!!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2020
The treatment received by the president collides head-on with the reality of a nearby hospital discharge.
Since Friday, information was given on the health of the president, but it was a communication full of gaps that left more questions than answers.
Trump had a "high fever" on Friday, but the temperature was not disclosed.
The oxygen level dropped below 95% on two occasions, one of them to 93, although it never went below 90%.
Doctors gave him dexamethasone on Saturday, which is basically a steroid used in severe cases.
On Friday, he was given a dose of an experimental antiviral cocktail.
None of the above is compatible with a discharge three days after your admission.
All of the above was said with more or less forceps by the press by the president's personal physician, Sean Conley, throughout the days since his hospitalization on Friday.
And yet the president's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, said on Monday that President Trump was making "incredible progress" and was "ready to return to his normal work schedule."
"He will meet with his doctors and nurses today to conduct additional assessments of his progress," said Meadows, in an interview on
Fox News
.
This same afternoon [for Monday], he added, they will make the decision whether he can leave the hospital and return to the White House.
According to Meadows, on whom all the fury of the president is likely to fall since on Saturday he made much more gloomy statements about his state of health than those offered to the public opinion by the president's doctor, Trump's health had improved during the night and there was "optimism" in the Administration about the possibility that he would leave Walter Reed Hospital on Monday.
"His treatment has been remarkable," Meadows said, "and his strength has been incredible."
Noise and fury on Twitter
Trump began his Monday with a flurry of furious tweets, all in capital letters, but unlike other days of noise and fury on Twitter from the president, this time the president is under the influence of the steroid dexamethasone and with at least four days of receiving the experimental drug Remdesivir, after having been treated, in addition, at first with an experimental antibody therapy developed by the biotechnology company, the pharmaceutical company Regeneron.
The White House has insisted that Trump continues with his presidential duties and has provided a series of photos in which he is seen working in the hospital, in addition to having released a series of videos with messages to make it clear that he is not weak nor alien to his role as Head of State.
According to the public radio station
NPR
(acronym in English), Vice President Mike Pence, who has not been seen in public since Trump fell ill, was due to leave Washington on his way to Utah today as the beginning of a week full of campaign events , whose main exponent will be in the debate on Tuesday night against the Democratic candidate for vice presidency, Kamala Harris.
The complaints about the handling of an unconventional situation, a serious illness contracted by the leader of the United States, have not worsened.
The last to throw her darts has been Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives and second in the line of presidential succession, after Vice President Mike Pence, who has assured that he has not been informed about the status of Trump since he was diagnosed with covid-19.
"We are getting our information just like everyone else, in the media," Pelosi said in a television interview Sunday.
The Democratic leader, who tested negative on a diagnostic test on Friday, wished Trump a "speedy recovery."
From this Monday, the White House will remain low.
In the morning, the penultimate piece of the dominoes of the Administration affected by the coronavirus fell.
The press officer, Kayleigh McEnany, announced that she had tested positive for coronavirus.
In the evening, before learning of her diagnosis, the White House sent an email to all its employees asking them not to come to work if they had symptoms of Covid-19.
“As a reminder, if you are having symptoms such as a sore throat, cough, fever, headache, loss of taste or smell, muscle aches, chills, diarrhea, or shortness of breath, please stay home and do not come to work until be free of symptoms, ”the email said.
In the event that symptoms appear in the workplace, the instruction is to "return home immediately" and see the regular doctor, not the White House medical service.
A deserted White House to which Trump is preparing to return before an electoral campaign totally to be defined.
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- Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) October 5, 2020
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