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on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020health

Doctors, White House staff offer conflicting messages on president’s health

The White House on Saturday sent conflicting signals about the president’s battle with the coronavirus, raising questions over the seriousness of his illness.

Doctors Saturday afternoon offered a rosey assessment of Trump’s health less than 24 hours after he was checked into Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

But statements the Associated Press and other outlets later attributed to White House chief of staff Mark MeadowsMark Randall MeadowsTrump campaign manager tests positive for COVID-19 The Memo: Trump grapples with credibility gap in crisis Overnight Healthcare: President Trump has coronavirus MORE and other sources gave a more alarming account of the president’s health.

Adding to the confusion, the doctors themselves sent mixed messages over basic facts about the president’s treatment.

Trump was diagnosed with the coronavirus late Thursday night after top White House aide Hope HicksHope Charlotte HicksTrump campaign manager tests positive for COVID-19 Trump given Remdesivir as treatment for COVID-19 infection Kellyanne Conway tests positive for COVID-19 MORE tested positive for the disease. The president and first lady Melania TrumpMelania TrumpTrump given Remdesivir as treatment for COVID-19 infection Kellyanne Conway tests positive for COVID-19 Trump to Woodward in April: I’m ‘just not’ worried about contracting COVID-19 MORE announced early Friday morning that they tested positive for COVID-19.

Friday afternoon, the president was taken via Marine One to Walter Reed “out of an abundance of caution” according to White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. The president was seen on camera walking out of the White House in a suit, blue tie and mask, where he waved to the press and boarded Maine One.

At the time, White House physician Sean Conley released an update stating that the president was experiencing fatigue.

But on Saturday, the White House staff and physicians began issuing mixed messages.

At Saturday’s press conference outside Walter Reed, White House physician Sean Conley told reporters Trump was doing “very well.”

“At this time the team and I are extremely happy with the progress the president has made,” Conley said. “Thursday, he had a mild cough and some nasal congestion and fatigue, all of which are now resolving and improving.”

“He’s in exceptionally good spirits,” Dr. Sean Dooley said following Conley, adding that Trump’s heart, kidney and liver seemed normal and that he was not experiencing any trouble breathing or walking around.

Moments after the press conference, however, a source familiar with the president’s health who was not initially on the record said that the president’s vitals over the past day had been “very concerning,” describing the next 48 hours as “critical in terms of his care.”

“We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery,” the person, now reported as Meadows, said. The chief of staff was caught on camera outside Walter Reed talking to reporters and asking to go off the record to discuss the president’s health.

These remarks from Meadows contrasted his statements Friday, when he said Trump was experiencing “mild symptoms” but was “very energetic.”

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on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020health

After mixed messages from White House, Trump says ‘real test’ ahead in his COVID fight

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said from his hospital room on Saturday that he felt “much better” but the next few days will be “the real test” of his treatment for COVID-19, capping a day of contradictory messages from the White House about his condition.

In a four-minute video posted on Twitter, Trump, looking tired and wearing a jacket and open-necked shirt, said he “wasn’t feeling so well” when he first arrived at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday.

“Over the next period of a few days, I guess that’s the real test, so we’ll be seeing what happens over those next couple of days,” Trump said, seated at a round table in front of an American flag.

The remarks came hours after differing assessments of his health from administration officials left it unclear how ill the president had become since he tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday night, a matter of enormous public concern.

A White House team of doctors said on Saturday morning that Trump’s condition was improving and that he was already talking about returning to the White House. One doctor said Trump told them “‘I feel like I could walk out of here today.’”

Within minutes, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows gave reporters a less rosy assessment, telling them, “The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.”

Meadows, whose initial comments were delivered on condition that he not be identified, altered his tone hours later, telling Reuters that Trump was doing “very well” and that “doctors are very pleased with his vital signs.”

Meadows did not clarify the discrepancy in his comments. A Trump adviser who spoke on condition of anonymity said the president was not happy to learn of Meadows’ initial remarks.

Trump was flown from the White House to Walter Reed, near Washington, about 17 hours after he announced his illness. Administration officials, who described the move as precautionary, said he would stay at the hospital for several days.

Another source who was briefed on Trump’s condition said the president was given supplemental oxygen before he went to the hospital. The decision to hospitalize Trump came after he had experienced difficulty breathing and his oxygen level dropped, according to a source familiar with the situation.

White House doctor Sean P. Conley told reporters outside the hospital on Saturday that Trump had not had trouble breathing, and was not given oxygen at Walter Reed.

“The team and I are extremely happy with the progress the president has made,” Conley said.

He declined to give a timetable for Trump’s possible release from the hospital, and later had to issue a statement saying he misspoke after appearing to suggest Trump had been diagnosed as early as Wednesday.

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on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020health

President’s condition ‘concerning,’ WH messages mixed

White House physician Sean P. Conley gave an update on President Trump’s health from Walter Reed hospital, saying he was “doing very well.”

USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s condition after receiving a diagnosis of COVID-19 was “very concerning,” a White House official told the Associated Press, a sober assessment that raised new questions about the extent of the president’s illness.

The president’s vitals over the past daywere “very concerning” and the next 48 hours will be critical for his care, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told the Associated Press.

The course of COVID-19 can be highly variable, but the next three to five days are likely to be crucial, physicians who have treated hundreds of coronavirus patients told USA TODAY.

Meadows’ assessment was more disquieting than the one offered Saturday by White House physician Sean Conley — who said the president was “doing very well” — the latest in a series of mixed messages from officials about the president’s condition since Trump tested positive for the virus.

White House officials initially said Trump had a “mild” case of COVID-19after testing positive late Thursday and moving to the Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday evening. Trump disclosed the results in a tweet early Friday morning and was seen walking to Marine One that evening for the short helicopter journey to the hospital.

Conley said Saturday the president had been fever free for 24 hours and was not receiving oxygen.Conley said Trump experienced a mild cough, nasal congestion and fatigue on Thursday, “all of which are now resolving and improving.”

Walter Reed referred questions about Conley’s briefing Saturday back to the White House.

Breaking a more than 12-hour silence on Twitter, Trump posted Saturday that he was “feeling well” and he praised the doctors, nurses and other staff at Walter Reed. He later tweeted encouragement to members of Congress to approve an economic stimulus for the pandemic.

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!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2020

Doctors repeatedly said Trump, 74, was not on oxygen Saturday but did not answer specific questions about whether he had received it previously, though Trump’s medical team denied a report Friday that the president was having trouble breathing.

“He’s not on oxygen right now,” Conley said, adding that Trump had an oxygen saturation level of 96%, within the normal range for a healthy person

But Conley declined to rule out that Trump had received oxygen Friday before heading to the hospital and the Associated Press, citing an unnamed source, reported that oxygen had been administered in that period.

White House officials declined to answer questions from USA TODAY about whether oxygen was administered.

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