After a weekend of wildly mixed messaging about the president's health, here's what we know about Trump's coronavirus infection
What is going on. Photo: The Washington Post/The Washington Post via Getty Images What a wild and winding news road we’ve traveled in past ~72 hours, or however much time has passed since President Donald Trump announced, very early Friday morning, that he and First Lady Melania have the coronavirus. In the interim, a number of key Trumpworld players have confirmed their diagnoses, while the specifics of the president’s condition remain murky at best.
Just before midnight, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany shared Conley’s “Friday Evening Health Update” on the president’s condition. Conley wrote that Trump was “doing very well” and “not requiring any supplemental oxygen,” but that he had begun a Remdesivir treatment course. Remdesivir is an antiviral drug that has shown some promise in serious COVID cases, generally the kind where patients require supplemental oxygen. Then came the mixed messaging.
Still, despite his assertions of relative strength, Trump weathered some “scary moments,” the New York Times reported Saturday. Two White House sources allegedly told the outlet that the president had a hard time breathing on Friday and required supplemental oxygen. Meanwhile, Vanity Fair reported that Trump’s team forced him into the hospital against his will.
But according to Conley, that has not consistently been the case since the president entered the hospital. Conley admitted that Trump’s oxygen levels dropped at two points in the past 48 hours, once on Friday and once on Saturday . He also had a “high fever” on Friday, the physician reported, but declined to go into detail on imaging of the president’s lungs.
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