A White House official said Saturday that President Donald Trump's condition led to the decision to transfer the president to a hospital after other staff members, including COVID-19, were diagnosed’ as "relevant" by their staff and doctors. Made his condition public. Rosier terms.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadow
said the president was "very anxious" when he developed a fever and
told Fox News over the weekend that the president's blood oxygen levels had
dropped "rapidly." "It simply came to our notice then. Friday
morning.
"He's not out of the woods,"
Meadows told Fox News. "They've made incredible improvements since
yesterday morning when I found out that many of us - the doctor and I - were
very upset."
Meadow's assessment was more serious than
hours ago by White House spokesman Sean Conley - who said the president was
"doing a great job" - one of the officials' mixed messages about the
president's condition. Series. White House officials initially said Trump had a
"mild" case of COVID-19, and they have failed to reveal the extent of
Trump's symptoms for a long time.
Conley told a briefing in Walter Reed on
Saturday morning that the president had been free of fever for 24 hours and was
not receiving oxygen at the time. Conley said Trump suffered a mild cough,
runny nose and fatigue on Thursday, "all of which are now resolved."
After Trump's physicians and other doctors
provided an update on Trump's health, an administration official - later
identified as Meadow by the Associated Press and the New York Times - met with
reporters and He described the president's condition as "extremely
worrying" earlier in the week. "The next 48 hours will be crucial for
its maintenance," the official said.
Respecting the White House's request, the
poll report sent to the White House Press Corps did not name the official by
name. However, in an online video, Meadow Meadows briefed White House poll
correspondents after Conley's remarks.
Although White House officials declined to
confirm during the week that it was Meadows who made the remarks, the chief of
staff provided the same information to Fox News on record over the weekend.
Breaking more than 12 hours of silence on
Twitter, Trump posted on Saturday that he was "recovering" and
praised the doctors, nurses and other staff at Walter Reid. He later tweeted
that members of Congress were encouraged to approve the economic stimulus for
the epidemic. He later sent a "come back soon" video message.
Doctors have repeatedly said Trump, 74,
was not on oxygen but did not answer specific questions about whether he had
received it before, although Trump's medical team denied a report Friday. The
president was having trouble breathing.
"They're not on oxygen yet,"
Conley said, adding that Trump had a mediocre oxygen saturation level of 96%
for a healthy person.
But Conley denied that Trump received
oxygen before he went to the hospital on Friday, and the Associated Press
quoted an unnamed source as saying that oxygen had been administered’ during
that time.
White House officials today declined to
answer questions from the United States about whether oxygen was’ given.
What to know about oxygen levels
Doctors have monitored the oxygen level in
the blood as an indication of whether the oxygen level is low or not.
Dr. Russell Buhr, a professor of pulmonary
and critical care medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, said
it is not uncommon for people with COVID-19 to need oxygen from time to time.
Early in the disease, the coronavirus can damage cells and injure the lungs,
allowing oxygen to enter the bloodstream.
"If these cells are damaged, we
compensate by providing extra oxygen so the lungs get more oxygen than the air
in the room," said Behr, who cared for more than 100 coronavirus patients.
Of
Patients with COVID-19 need a little
oxygen when they first arrive at the hospital, often when they are already sick
at home for between three days and a week.
"Some of them get better and they get
better. Some of them get worse," said Jay Randall Curtis, a professor of
pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Washington in
Seattle.
In 3 days
In his opening remarks, Conley said Trump
had "only 72 hours to evaluate," which drew much attention to the
time when the White House was aware of the president's condition.
Asked why, in particular, Trump has been
transferred’ to Walter Reid, Conley pointed out that it is out of extreme
caution.
"Because he's the president of the
United States," Conley said.
Conley said doctors are performing daily
ultrasounds and lab work.
Shortly after Trump arrived at the
hospital, the White House issued a memo to Conley indicating that the president
was starting remedial therapy. Conley said at the time that Trump was
"relaxing."
According to Conley, Trump also received
an 8-gram dose of Regeneron's polyclonal antibody cocktail as a precaution. The
company said on its page that the antibody cocktail phase is being studied’ in
clinical trials and its safety and efficacy have not been fully assessed’ by
any regulatory authority.
Trump himself has looked unshakable since
the announcement of the self-assessment, and White House officials sought to
keep business as usual throughout the day on Friday. On Saturday, officials
announced that Trump had signed two resolutions appointing citizen
reactionaries to the board of the Smithsonian Institution.
After being silent on Twitter for most of
Friday, he posted a message at 11:30 p.m. EST saying things are "welcome,
I think!"
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