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Pandemic: Doctors assure that Trump can be discharged this Monday
Speculation about the state of health and the time when Donald Trump tested positive for coronavirus continues.
On the one hand, doctors treating the president at Walter Reed Army Hospital outside Washington have once again insisted that his health is improving rapidly, to the point that, in the words of
Brian Garibaldi
, from Johns Hopkins University, "if he continues as well as today, our hope is to discharge him tomorrow, to continue his treatment in the White House."
So far, the message was clear.
But then Garibaldi added:
"In response to transient low oxygen levels, we started [yesterday] a dexamethasone treatment, and our plan is to continue it."
Dexamethasone is a steroid that has been shown to be very useful in combating the effects of Covid-19 in seriously ill patients, but not in mild cases.
It is used with patients who require extra oxygen or who are on ventilators.
On June 14, a study from the University of Oxford found that the use of this drug "reduces deaths by a third in patients on ventilators (...) and by a fifth in patients who are receiving oxygen."
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
only recommend the use of this steroid in seriously ill patients
, since in mild cases it can be harmful.
Thus, "dexamethasone" - a word that no one who is a doctor had ever hated to speak of in his life - became a 'trending topic' on Twitter in the city of Washington.
The use of that drug does not mean much less that Trump's health is in danger.
But the president has suffered or is suffering drops in blood oxygen levels close to risk levels.
White House physician
Sean Conley
added that while Trump's oxygen levels have dropped to 93%, they never broke the 90% ground, which is the limit beyond which doctors consider the patient to be is in a serious condition.
Add to that the danger of inflammation or damage to Trump's lung tissue, something in which Conley created more confusion when he said that the tests carried out so far "have made the expected findings", but without going into details.
The president's heart, liver and kidneys are "normal or recovering," according to doctors.
Confusing information
In some cases, Conley's responses would have been almost hilarious, had it not been about the health of a person who also has a key political and institutional rank in the world.
Asked if the president had to receive oxygen on Saturday, he first said that "I have to ask the nurses", then he asked "what day was it yesterday?"
and finally acknowledged, "yes, yesterday morning."
Trump's doctor also said that statements by White House Chief of Staff
Mark Meadows
about Trump's health "have been misinterpreted."
On Saturday, just minutes after Conley concluded his press conference, Meadows had stated that "the president's vital signs in the last 24 hours have been very worrying, and what happens in the next 48 hours is going to be decisive from from the point of view of his health status. We are not yet in a clear direction towards a full recovery. "
And he concluded with a great phrase:
"People say that we are trying to hide something, which is not necessarily true."
At no time during the press conference did Conley elaborate, nor did the press ask, about whether Trump and his wife Melania had tested positive on Thursday night, as the president himself had said, or on Wednesday morning, as the president had stated. doctor.
The distinction is important because, if Conley's version is correct,
Trump maintained a very active schedule that involved being in contact with hundreds of people
even knowing they had the coronavirus, and only made the diagnosis public when he began to experience symptoms.
23 infections in the White House
All this ceremony of confusion has paralyzed American political life.
It is understandable.
In the last week, 23 people who have been or work in the White House have tested positive for coronavirus.
Even so, to this day,
the use of masks is still not mandatory in the residence of the head of state and government of the United States
, according to the American press.
The fact that three Republican senators have tested positive for the coronavirus since Thursday has forced the leader of that party in the Senate,
Mitch McConnell
, to cancel the sessions of that chamber for fear of a wave of infections.
McConnell, however, has kept the schedule for the confirmation of Justice
Amy Coney Barrett
to the Supreme Court, although the sessions have to be conducted online.
The shutdown of the Senate could also derail a second economic stimulus program worth about 2.2 trillion dollars (1.9 trillion euros) that is being negotiated between the Secretary of the Treasury,
Steven Mnuchin
, and the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives,
Nancy Pelosi
.
The Republicans had opposed the aid but, fearing to lose control of the Senate in the November elections, they are relaxing their position.
The plan, which is supported by Trump, is necessary so that the US economy does not sink again as the previous stimulus, of roughly the same size, wears off.
The new program would include more checks to the population, as well as aid so that the finances of city councils and states do not collapse
.
This morning, New York announced a new partial lockdown in a number of neighborhoods to contain a flare-up of Covid-19.
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