Dr. Sean Conley said Trump has experienced two episodes of transient drops in oxygen levels. From Thursday into Friday morning, Conley said Trump was doing well with mild symptoms and oxygen levels in the high 90s. By later Friday morning, the president had a high fever and his oxygen levels began dipping below 94%.
At that point, Conley recommended supplemental oxygen treatment due to concerns about the possible rapid progression of the disease. Trump was adamant he did not need the treatment, but it was nevertheless administered for about an hour at the White House.
He began showing milder symptoms and began moving about his residence at the White House, but, despite these improvements, Conley said the medical team determined the best course of action was to transfer Trump to Walter Reed in Bethesda, Md., by Friday afternoon for a more thorough evaluation and monitoring.
Dr. Sean Dooley, a pulmonologist at Walter Reed, said the president has remained without a fever since Friday morning and his cardiac, kidney and liver functions are all still normal. He said Trump has not shown signs of shortness of breath and was walking around his medical unit without limitation or disability.
Comment: The conspiracy theorists over at the WSJ will seemingly grasp at the smallest of straws in order to come up with an anti-Trump story. Now they're saying that Trump kept his diagnosis secret ... for a period of mere hours until the initial results were confirmed by a second test. But they're not the only ones with questions. This one, from a "prominent Republican" seems more important to ask: The latest to come down with the Covid (i.e., to be tested positive, whether or not they show any symptoms) is WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (who isn't showing any symptoms).
Trump hasn't been discharged yet, but he did briefly leave the hospital, slowly driven past the crowd of cheering supporters holding vigil outside the facility.
Naturally, this was bad, because Orange Man Bad.
Better if he just holed up in his basement like Biden has all this year, right? No, that's why Trump's supporters like Trump:
And here's Trump's latest video message, from yesterday. He's been to 'Covid school', and he's going to tell us all about it:
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