Doctors: Trump continues to improve during virus treatment

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JILL COLVIN, STEVE PEOPLES and JONATHAN LEMIRE

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s blood oxygen level dropped suddenly on Saturday, but he “has continued to improve,” the White House physician said Sunday, suggesting that Trump could be discharged from the hospital as early as Monday.

Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley sought to clarify contradictory statements and confusion about the president’s condition on the steps of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where Trump was being treated for COVID-19.

Conley said the president had a “high fever” and a blood oxygen level below 94% on Friday and again on Saturday. The level currently stands at 98%, Trump’s medical team said.

“The president has continued to improve,” Conley said.



Dr. Sean Conley, physician to President Donald Trump, briefs reporters at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020. Trump was admitted to the hospital after contracting the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)


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[MaryMagdaline]

1. How far below 94 did his 02 drop?

And if it dropped Saturday (yesterday!!) why is the doctor so chipper?

[Lucky Luciano]

9. I dunno, I'm pretty chipper about it.

[TheRickles]

2. How hard would it be to give actual numbers?

How high was the fever, how low was the blood oxygen level, what was his actual blood pressure, etc.? Everybody on Trump's team, even his doctors, plays with the truth.

[chriscan64]

21. Right.

I have never seen a doctor so skilled in political style evasiveness. Of course his patient can't mouth the words "I condemn white supremacy." He may be under instructions to be vague, and is unusually good at it for a doctor.

[beachbumbob]

3. If so, then why fake pictures of a hard working trump with blank paper?

[George II]

8. Right. If he was as bad as the doctor said he was yesterday, they sure as shit didn't.....

....get him out of his hospital gown, dress him up and put him in an empty room for a photo op, then quickly changes his clothes and move him to another room for another photo op.

It's been revealed via the statistics of the two photographs were taken less than 10 minutes apart!

[BlueStater]

4. You can't believe a damn thing these assholes say about anything.

Conley is a much of a puppet as Ronny Jackass was.

[LiberalFighter]

5. Was it really necessary to take him to Walter Reed?

[Tommymac]

22. He needed the cover story.

I am still 50/50 if he really has it.

If Dr. Fauci would test him then I would believe 100%

Otherwise I still think that there may be something else going on politically and this is a cover story for it.

I just don't trust him or any of his minions. On anything. Too much polluted water under the bridge.

[oldsoftie]

7. WOnder what dosage of Hydroxychloraquine hes getting??

[BigDemVoter]

19. EXACTLY. . . .

[Paladin]

10. Dr. Zeke Emanuel was just on MSNBC, castrating these lying "Doctors."

All hail Dr. Zeke. And God protect me and my loved ones from trump's dishonest sacks of shit, passing themselves off as honorable, intelligent physicians.

[Lonestarblue]

11. If Trump can be released tomorrow, then he must have a mild case of the virus.

It would be nice for other doctors to know just how serious Trump’s symptoms were and how the experimental treatments helped him. That knowledge could help treat other patients, but I suspect nothing will be shared.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. And if he has a mild case, then why

are they treating it so aggressively?

[Sancho]

13. Then why add the steroids?

...something in his case caused the docs to start with anti-clonal treatment, then Remdesivir, and now steroids today. That's not the same as take a Tylenol and get some rest.

The O2 or lung pictures or whatever indicates treatment for now. It was probably bad doctoring to state they would discharge him tomorrow. If they don't, then he has lost all credibility (if that's even possible). If they do discharge and MF45 has a relapse then he must be incompetent. I suspect that stupid is INSISTING that they discharge him.

[IggleDuer]

16. Steroids are not usually used for a small drop in his oxygen levels...

... unless he also had some respiratory distress, such as wheezing or continued coughing paroxysms.

[beachbumbob]

14. IF trump was in ANY shape to speak on camera, that would have happened

[Maeve]

15. Maybe

Tell me how tall he really is and maybe I'll believe you

[IggleDuer]

17. Is he taking fever reducing drugs, such as aspirin, ibuprofen or Tylenol, etc.

Then a drop in fever means little.

[DeminPennswoods]

28. Saw aspirin on a list of meds graphic

MSNBC put up.

[BigDemVoter]

18. This is total bullshit too.

The second to third weeks are generally when people start to deteriorate, so it is much, much too early to state that he is "improving." I've seen it with my own eyes, as I work in ICU in California. They are fucking lying AGAIN.

[LisaL]

20. Well he could be improving.

But like you said, his doctors know full well that it doesn't mean much as of yet, when dealing with covid patients.

[Tommymac]

23. If they release him Monday I'll believe for sure he was faking it.

Why did they do it? Don't know.

But the lies (for him and by him) at this point are coming fast and furious.

[oldsoftie]

24. If he WAS faking looking for sympathy votes it looks like that plan backfired.

Nothing new I've seen shows any improvement in the polls for him

[Polybius]

25. Impossible to fake it at this point

He 100% has Covid.

[gldstwmn]

26. What do his lungs look like?

They know and aren't saying anything.

[White_Panther_1984]

27. Dexamethasone Not Good News

Stories aren't aligning somewhere. Dexamethasone is reserved for severe cases only. In fact it makes mild cases worse due to its immune suppressing effects. So either they're lying about his med regimen or about his rosy prognosis/possible exit from the hospital tomorrow.

Remdesivir + dexamethasone + IV antibodies is not something mild COVID patients get... even if they are high-profile patients. It could potentially kill you. This isn't "take a Tylenol & go to bed" stuff. Just more chaotic Russian misdirection propaganda tactics IMO. Combined with the staged EXIF data pics I'm taking it all with a huge pillar of salt. He's either not symptomatic at all or hanging on by a thread. But it can't be both.

[DeminPennswoods]

29. Doubt he's hanging on by a thread, but

he's a lot sicker than the docs are saying - or are being allowed to say by the patient himself. Otherwise he'd be demanding his phone and tweeting up a storm about how covid is nothing or other nonsense.