As an old RN, one of the most difficult things is to accurately predict an individual's course

[Salviati]

1. Right.

I mean 20% of the people here seem to think that it's just a hoax and that he's only pretending to have it, so he can miraculously recover from it. 20% seem to think that he's on death's door, or dead already, and it's just some sort of Weekend at Bernies/Dave coverup going on.

The real story is that even considering the grimmest numbers, just looking at his age and comorbidities that we know of, he's more likely to survive than not. We don't know his exact condition, and even if we did, it still wouldn't tell us a lot. Different people respond different ways to disease, and to this one in extreme particular.

Whatever happens, it doesn't change the fact that his presidency has been a spectacular failure, and this is a crisis largely of his own making. He and the rest of the republican party and their incompetence at taking this seriously are, I am sure, entirely to blame for the immediate crisis that the republican party is undergoing right now, and without a doubt for the larger crisis it exists within.