President Donald Trump unexpectedly left the hospital, where he is being treated’ for COVID 19 on Sunday to welcome his supporter, as he struggles to get back on the campaign trail. He kept waving towards them from his motorcycle.
Video footage shows Trump wearing a mask
waving the utility of a black game from behind a closed car window when
supporters cheered. White House spokesman Jude Derry said he then returned to
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, where he has been
since Friday.
Meanwhile, in a video released on Twitter,
Trump said he had "learned a lot" about the coronavirus during
treatment. "This is the real school," he said. "And I understand
that. And I understand that. He said his arrival meant "a little
surprise" to his supporters.
Earlier Sunday, Trump's doctors reassured
him of his health after recovering from a virus infection, and even new
revelations about his treatment have raised fears that his condition could be’
compromised. Far more serious.
"The president has improved,"
White House physician Sean Conley told reporters at a briefing by the medical
team Sunday morning. "Like any disease, this course has its ups and
downs."
"We hope we can plan for the White
House discharge as soon as possible," said Brian Garibaldi, a member of
the president's medical team and a pulmonary at Johns Hopkins University.
Conley revealed that Trump, who on Friday
revealed that he had tested positive for Covid-19, had been given a drug to
control the swelling, and he admitted for the first time that the president had
The White House was given extra oxygen on Tuesday.
Also, Trump did not disclose the positive
results of the Coyote-19 rapid test before a telephone interview with Fox News
on Thursday, while awaiting results for a more complete coronavirus screening.
This issue has not been identified’
On Sunday evening, White House Press
Secretary Kelly McKinney told reporters that Trump first tested positive after
returning from a fundraiser at his New Jersey golf resort on Thursday.
"I'm not going to go into detail about his test. But it's fair to say that
his first positive test was on his return or at least after Bedminster.
Although aides have suggested that Trump
may be ready to return a month later with the election campaign, questions
remain as to how sick he has become as he moves to a stage where some patients
are in critical condition. Increases suddenly and dramatically.
"We know that in many patients who
are very ill, it is around 8 to 10 a day," said Helen Boucher, head of the
Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center
in Boston.
McKinney also expressed some caution.
"He's on the other side of it,"
he told Fox News. "But, really, we know that the next two or three days
are important."
President Trump drove past motorcycle
supporters outside the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in
Bethesda, Maryland, on October 4.
Photographer: Graeme Sullivan / Bloomberg
And Dr. James Phillips, a professor of
emergency medicine at George Washington University, said Trump put others at
risk by taking a ride on Sunday. He said the presidential SUV was not only
bulletproof, but also hermetically sealed against chemical attack. The risk of
transmitting COVID19 is as high as it is outside the medical procedure.
"Irresponsibility is amazing," Phillips tweeted.
Deere later said that "appropriate
precautions were taken to put the movement into practice to protect all those
who supported it, including the president and the PPE. The movement was cleared
by a medical team."
A spokesman for the US Secret Service said
the protocol was in place to protect personnel serving the president.
In Sunday's briefing, Conley said Trump's
blood oxygen saturation levels have dropped twice since he was diagnosed’ and
that the president's medical team found dexamethasone, a steroid used to treat
inflammation in COVID patients. Decided after some discussion for the
management of. Asked about X-rays and CT scans of the president's lungs, Conley
said "some expected results were found" but nothing "caused any
significant medical concern."
Trump has already been given’ the
experienced "Antibody Cocktail" as well as remdesivir, an antiviral
drug.
During a briefing on Saturday, Conley made
it clear. He said Trump was not given’ oxygen on Friday, then hedged it, saying
he had not been found’ in Walter Reid.
Conley said Sunday that Trump
"insisted he didn't need it," and that his blood oxygen saturation
was restored’ after about a minute of extra oxygen in the White House. Conley
said the president had been on oxygen for less than an hour and had not seen a
recurrence of the fever since Friday.
When asked why he did not disclose
information earlier, Conley said: "I was trying to reflect on the team
president's encouraging attitude that he was behaving during his illness. I
didn't want to give any information that could take the disease away, and in
doing so, it turned out that we were trying to hide something that wasn't
necessary. "
He ended Sunday's briefing just 10 minutes
later, refusing to answer repeated questions about whether Trump's lung scans
showed signs of pneumonia.
Go back to the campaign?
"We need to believe that what they
are telling us about the president's condition is real," House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi said of CBS's "Face the Nation." Suggesting that Trump
is approving the medical team's public statements, the Democratic leader said,
"It's not very scientific."
Earlier on Sunday, a senior campaign
colleague said Trump would be ready to return to the campaign soon.
Jason Miller told NBC's "Meet the
Press" that Trump spoke on the phone Saturday afternoon, denying public
health recommendations for wearing a monthly health mask and maintaining social
distance. "They want to remind people to wash their hands, to use hand
salvation, to make sure that if you can't afford to wear a mask socially,"
he said.
Asked about a new NBC Wall Street Journal
poll showing Biden leading Trump by 14 percentage points, Miller told ABC's
"This Week" Trump's chances in key states are encouraging that 270
electoral votes are’ needed. In a poll conducted after the president's debate
on Tuesday, but before Trump assessed Code 19, Biden led Trump to take the
biggest lead in the presidential campaign from 53% to 39%.
Trump took to Twitter on Sunday afternoon
to thank "all the fans and supporters" who are gathering outside
Walter Reid's gate.
Presidential aides sought to dispel
suspicions about their campaign on Sunday's news shows and to defend their
election rallies and incidents at the White House where Trump and his
supporters rarely appeared. He was wearing a mask.
"We give them a mask, we check their
temperature," Miller said, often mocking Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
"The mask is used as a support." Trump has also ridiculed Biden for
wearing a mask in public.
Miller said Trump was "going to
defeat" the virus. "And I think when President Trump arrives at the
White House and starts campaigning, it's going to be a choke point," he
said.
But National Security Adviser Robert
O'Brien, who has previously succumbed to the virus and is recovering, was more
cautious, stressing that it would be too soon to see what Trump would gain.
"We've got a great team and the
president is in control," O'Brien said when asked about a possible
handover of power.
Campaign adviser Miller presented the
campaign, dubbed "Operation Mega," followed by a virtual program
Monday night followed by a speech by Vice President Mike Pence, members of
Trump's family and Wednesday night. After the vice-presidential debate,
transition activists rallied to support him in Trump's absence.
Aides, Allies Stricken
Trump aides, including Hope Hooks,
campaign manager Bill Stephen and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and
Republican senators Thom Tills, Mike Lee, and Ron Johnson, have come down with
Covid 19, raising questions about whether Trump's White House and campaign
programs. Super spreader locations for viruses.
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