Trump Was Sicker Than Acknowledged With Covid-19

[PatSeg]

WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump was sicker with Covid-19 in October than publicly acknowledged at the time, with extremely depressed blood oxygen levels at one point and a lung problem associated with pneumonia caused by the coronavirus, according to four people familiar with his condition.

His prognosis became so worrisome before he was taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center that officials believed he would need to be put on a ventilator, two of the people familiar with his condition said.

The people familiar with Mr. Trump’s health said he was found to have lung infiltrates, which occur when the lungs are inflamed and contain substances such as fluid or bacteria. Their presence, especially when a patient is exhibiting other symptoms, can be a sign of an acute case of the disease. They can be easily spotted on an X-ray or scan, when parts of the lungs appear opaque, or white.

Mr. Trump’s blood oxygen level alone was cause for extreme concern, dipping into the 80s, according to the people familiar with his evaluation. The disease is considered severe when the blood oxygen level falls to the low 90s.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html?

[dflprincess]

1. At the risk of being trite

I really don't care.

[Lunabell]

2. I'm just sorrry that he survived.

So many lives on January 6th could have been saved.

[DeminPennswoods]

12. +1

[Celerity]

26. +10000000000000000

[soothsayer]

3. Sad

[Caliman73]

4. Whaaaa!?! You mean Trump lied and covered something up?!?

We need a smiley for post headers.

The man's WHOLE LIFE has been a lie. It is sad that I am so jaded that this doesn't surprise me in the least.

[lisa58]

5. Of course he was - he had a hospital in the WH...

I want to know when he tested positive because I bet he knew he was positive for the first debate and screamed through the entire debate with the hope of infecting Biden

[PatSeg]

14. I wouldn't be surprised

The diagnosis was announced only two days after the debate. It sounds like something Trump is capable of doing.

[lisa58]

21. I know! It sounds like something he would relish doing...

He wants his way and doesn’t care how he gets it

[PatSeg]

23. And at that time,

he probably wasn't showing symptoms yet and might have thought he was an asymptomatic carrier. There's nothing too low for that man.

[lisa58]

27. Truth

[LuvNewcastle]

6. He's a danger to our republic as long as

he's still sucking air. I hope he catches something a lot more lethal than Covid.

[PatSeg]

16. COVID is known to cause long term damage

Many people apparently don't recover completely, so who knows.

[spanone]

7. pneumonia and bacteria wanted nothing to do with this guy

[bdamomma]

8. Maybe

Covid will get him again. I doubt he got a vaccine.

[RockRaven]

9. Duh! It was obvious at the time the WH doc was lying.

It was widely pointed out how his statements and actions were incongruent.

[PatSeg]

17. I didn't believe the White House at the time

and when he went up those stairs, he was clearly struggling to breathe. Besides, when has Trump ever intentionally told the truth?

[Deuxcents]

10. How was he able to spring back so soon

If he was really so sick? Must have been some powerful meds n of course, the best care?

[StevieM]

11. Ironic given that a big reason he was able to take down Hillary was the way the GOP acted like

she was hiding things about her health.

She didn't publicly announce that she was sick with a virus, which traditionally candidates had not been expected to do. She did make all of her health records public, unlike Donald who blatantly lied about his health history. But one visual image of her falling down on 9/11 was all it took to send the misogynistic news media into overdrive.

That episode was a much bigger deal that the basket of deplorables, rewritten history notwithstanding. Obviously it cannot compare to James Comey's antics, but it made the negative talking points of Comey and Putin that much more damaging.

This seems like the proper end result. If you believe the nonsense that was spewed at her then you will ultimately wind up with a president who actually does hide a major health care crisis, like apparently Donald Trump has done.

[Stargleamer]

13. This is important, as if Trump is a COVID-19 long hauler

His struggle with the disease would likely keep him from running for election in 2024. If he does run, he starts off with his usual and extremely irritating 40 to 43 % of the electorate.

[OAITW r.2.0]

15. Wish he had spent some quality time on a ventilator.

It would have been the karma that he deserved.

[PirateRo]

18. Right with everyone of you guys...he might have been sicker than reported but...

It wasn’t sick enough.

[Hortensis]

19. This is basically what I suspected, supported by his brief, obviously distressed

appearance on the balcony on returning so quickly to his WH hospital-level care. It did surprise me that a man of his age seemingly recovered as quickly as he did. Very best care.

Our much-younger DIL's O2 sat was in the bottom 90s at one point, and she never went to the hospital, just rode out her 11-day misery at home without it.

[PatSeg]

20. How is you DIL doing now?

Glad to hear she didn't have to go to the hospital.

[Hortensis]

24. She returned to work as a substitute teacher, Pat, before she was really

up to it; didn't have to as a substitute, but her school district was in big trouble with thousands out ill. That was hard, but now she says she's mostly just waiting to get her appetite back. She didn't lose her senses of taste and smell but over 2 weeks out still has to force herself to eat. That's what I "know." She's not big on complaining.

Yes to the glad and her resilience.

[PatSeg]

28. It is so scary

as we still don't know the long term effects of the disease or how much damage to the organs it causes. The stories about the long-haulers is really frightening.

[andym]

22. Regeneron's polyclonal antibodies saved his life

Last edited Thu Feb 11, 2021, 06:14 PM - Edit history (1)

I wonder how many are receiving this drug who need it.

[PatSeg]

25. Yes, the drug wasn't even approved by the FDA yet

Trump was able to push to get emergency approval, which is understandable being he was president. Having pushed Hydroxychloroquine for months, in the end his "miracle cure" was not used. "Hydroxychloroquine. Try it. What have you got to lose?" Such a dangerous man.

[Lunabell]

29. Makes me sick he got treated when so many have died under his watch.

And to top it off the research was done on aborted fetal tissue. Such hypocrisy.

I loath this creature more than anything on this earth. I have always hated him since he first landed on the national scene. When he is dying of some future malady, I wish him a long and torturous demise.

[PatSeg]

31. And for Trump, those people who died

were just inconvenient statistics, because their deaths might hurt him politically. Then on January 6th, we saw again how little he cared about the lives of others. They were a sacrifice that he was willing to make.

[Vinca]

30. Sadly, not sick enough.

[JDC]

32. Not sick enough imo.