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Jarqui

(10,421 posts)
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 11:43 AM Oct 2020

Looks like Trump is still getting an IV

See the bandage on his hand taken at his recent rally:




Here's a link to a Trump pic showing his hands when he arrived home from the hospital with no bandages on his hands

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/trump-returns-to-white-house-idUSRTX80686/1536363394

So the bandage - typically for an IV based upon the care given to my parents - is more recent - came after Walter Reed visit.

My observant sister sent me these.
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LizBeth

(10,629 posts)
2. Not only that yesterday they stated he had been 24 hours without fever. So Friday, he still had a
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 11:52 AM
Oct 2020

fever and that 24 hours was not necessarily 24 because they lie.

JCMach1

(27,940 posts)
4. Another good point, I had NO fever for weeks with the pneumonia
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 11:59 AM
Oct 2020

Part of Covid.

POTUS is shedding virus like a stuck pig if he still is getting fevers.

JCMach1

(27,940 posts)
3. Remdesivir IS via IV once per day. Dexamethasone is also IV
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 11:57 AM
Oct 2020

But injection, not drip. Blood work is MINIMUM daily for these meds.

So you are correct he is hopped up on meds (same ones I was (he is about a week behind my progress).

mucifer

(24,668 posts)
5. I am sure they are at least doing daily lab draws checking on his liver and kidney function re
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 12:03 PM
Oct 2020

side effects of the meds.

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