UPDATE: 10/3/2020 3:20p.m.
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – President Donald Trump is a patient at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, after tweeting that he and FLOTUS tested positive for COVID-19, on October 1st.
The president is said to have been fever free for over 24 hours. Physician to the President Trump, Dr. Sean Conley, provided an update on the president’s condition from the hospital earlier today. Conley remarked “At this time, the team and I are extremely happy with the progress the president has made. Thursday, he had a mild cough and some nasal congestion and fatigue, all of which are now resolving and improving at this time.”
The president is reported to have been given Regeneron’s antibody cocktail on Friday, October 2nd, and began remdesivir therapy.
Dr. Sean Dooley, one of the pulmonary critical care doctors on the president’s medical team said the President is “Receiving outstanding multidisciplinary care, the state of the science for coronavirus infection. We are monitoring him very closely for any evidence of complications from either the coronavirus illness or the therapies that we are prescribing to make him better.”
The hospital has monitored the president’s cardiac function, kidney function, and liver function, and all of those are reportedly normal. “And the president this morning is not on oxygen, not having difficulty breathing or walking around the White House Medical Unit upstairs,” said Dooley.
The president tweeted this afternoon from Walter Reed “Doctors, Nurses and ALL at the GREAT Walter Reed Medical Center, and others from likewise incredible institutions who have joined them, are AMAZING!!!Tremendous progress has been made over the last 6 months in fighting this PLAGUE. With their help, I am feeling well!”
One of the president’s advisors, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie revealed today that he also tested positive for COVID-19.
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Updated: 4:38 PM:
President Donald Trump’s doctor says Trump is being treated with an experimental drug aimed at supplying antibodies to help fight his coronavirus infection. Trump is receiving a two-antibody combo drug that’s currently in late-stage studies from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.
The company previously developed a successful treatment for Ebola using a similar approach. It’s given as a one-time treatment through an IV. Trump’s physician, Dr. Sean Conley, said the drug was being given “as a precautionary measure,” and that Trump also was taking zinc, vitamin D, an antacid called famotidine, melatonin and aspirin.
None of those have been proven to be effective against COVID-19.
President Trump tweeted this video shortly before departing for the hospital:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Trump’s positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president several times this week. Trump is 74 years old, putting him at higher risk of serious complications from a virus that has now killed more than 205,000 people nationwide.
In a memorandum, the president’s physician says the president and first lady “are both well at this time” and “plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence.”
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