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Botany

(70,714 posts) Sun Oct 4, 2020, 11:58 AM Oct 2020

Question for the doctors

If Trump hadn't gone to Walter Reed could he have died?

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Question for the doctors (Original Post) Botany Oct 2020 OP

It's clear they knew he needed access to the drugs dalton99a Oct 2020 #1

103 degrees F, heart palpitations, fatigue, lowers blood O2 levels, and a cough Botany Oct 2020 #2

I'm not a doctor LeftInTX Oct 2020 #3

dalton99a

(81,796 posts)

1. It's clear they knew he needed access to the drugs

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Oct 4, 2020, 11:59 AM

Oct 2020

and a hospital ICU / ECMO if things went south

Botany

(70,714 posts)

2. 103 degrees F, heart palpitations, fatigue, lowers blood O2 levels, and a cough

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 4, 2020, 12:01 PM

Oct 2020

n/t

LeftInTX

(25,939 posts)

3. I'm not a doctor

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Oct 4, 2020, 12:08 PM

Oct 2020

But if Trump was just an average citizen, he would not have been admitted.
He would have been at home and probably gotten much sicker than he is now.

As to whether someone dies is a different question, but I do think he would be sicker if he was not at Walter Reed.

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