President Donald Trump, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Friday is “doing very well”, his doctors said on Saturday. However, an insider with knowledge of his health voiced concern over his condition, as per an AFP report.
The Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre on Saturday provided its first official update on the President’s condition since he was admitted to the hospital on Friday. The medics were also upbeat about his progress.
White House physician Sean Conley said, At this time, the team and I are extremely happy with the progress the president has made,” he then added that the President had been “fever-free for over 24 hours.”
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Sean Dooley another member of Trump’s medical team, added, “We have monitored his cardiac function, his kidney function, liver function. All of those are normal.”
However, AFP quoted a source familiar with the President’s health, who painted a less rosy picture.
“The President’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery,” the source said.
White House Physicians Sean Conley refrained from answering questions raised by reporters about whether President Trump had received oxygen treatment at any point.
Conley, however, later clarified that the President was not on oxygen on Friday or at any point since he arrived at Walter Reed.
He said Trump was “just 72 hours into the diagnosis now”, implying that he was known to be sick a day before his test result was announced.
The White House later clarified that Conley meant to say Saturday was the third day since the president’s positive test result late Thursday.
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Soon after Trump arrived at Walter Reed, Conley said in a memo that the president was starting a course of therapeutic drug remdesivir and had received an eight-gram dose of an experimental polyclonal antibody cocktail.
Conley would not put a “hard date” on Trump’s discharge from the hospital or disclose the president’s temperature.