U.S. President Donald Trump should stay in the hospital for a few more days because Covid-19 can be 'very stealthy' and patients can 'suddenly crash,' said William Schaffner of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
the president had a high fever late Friday morning, and his oxygen saturation level dropped below healthy levels twice — on Friday and Saturday.a steroid that has been used to treat severe cases of Covid-19, and added that the president could be discharged as early as Monday.Schaffner said he hopes Trump stays in the hospital for a few more days "under the 24-hour-a-day, watchful attention of the staff.
If things go sour when he is back in the White House or an emergency happens and they need to take him back to Walter Reed, it would not be good for Trump, he added. "That would not be a good idea. Let's be conservative and take it a day at a time."Patients are usually declared free from the coronavirus if their symptoms have been resolved and it has been 10 days since the onset of symptoms or the positive test, Schaffner said.
"The virus builds up in your body before it starts to make you ill, so he could have been infected for quite some days … and then become infectious let's say Tuesday, maybe even Monday of last week," he said. "Potentially, the number of people who contacted him without precautions, without six-foot distancing, could be very large indeed."
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