{"id":437899,"date":"2020-10-05T07:16:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T05:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=437899"},"modified":"2020-10-05T07:16:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T05:16:20","slug":"trump-could-be-released-from-the-hospital-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/437899\/trump-could-be-released-from-the-hospital-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump could be released from the hospital Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s condition remains clouded by confusion over his treatment for Covid-19, with the president\u2019s effort to show strength contradicted by conflicting accounts from his doctors that raise doubts about how soon he\u2019ll be able return to work and his re-election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made a surprise outing from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Sunday, waving to supporters gathered outside from his motorcade and saying in a video posted on Twitter that he\u2019s learned a lot about virus. \u201cI get it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A member of his medical team, Brian Garibaldi, a pulmonary expert at Johns Hopkins University, said at a briefing on Sunday that the president could be released from the hospital as soon as Monday.<\/p>\n<p>But the White House physician, Sean Conley, disclosed for the first time that he was given supplemental oxygen and has received a medication that\u2019s typically used in more severe Covid-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>That raises questions about the president\u2019s condition as he heads into a phase of the illness where the health of some patients worsens suddenly and dramatically.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Bm9W2u1x7\">pic.twitter.com\/0Bm9W2u1x7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1312864232711520257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The questions about Trump\u2019s treatment and recovery as well as demands for more complete disclosure about his health come amid the prospect of widening outbreak among White House and campaign staff and Senate Republicans, even as campaign aides predicted the president would soon be back on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to trust that what they\u2019re telling us about the president\u2019s condition is real,\u201d House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d adding that she\u2019s getting details about Trump\u2019s health from the press and alleging that Trump is approving the medical team\u2019s public statements.<\/p>\n<p>But Conley also revealed that Trump\u2019s blood-oxygen saturation level dropped twice since his diagnosis, and that the president\u2019s medical team decided to administer dexamethasone, a steroid used to treat inflammation in Covid patients. Asked about X-rays and CT scans of the president\u2019s lungs, Conley said there were \u201csome expected findings\u201d but nothing \u201cof any major clinical concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president is not out of the woods,\u201d said William Schaffner, an infectious disease doctor at Vanderbilt University. Trump\u2019s doctor was \u201cvery evasive\u201d in discussing what lung scans had showed, he said. The disease\u2019s effects on patients\u2019 lungs is often worse than is indicated by their outward symptoms. \u201cIt is kind of a stealth infection,\u201d Schaffner added.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why he didn\u2019t disclose during Saturday\u2019s briefing that Trump had received oxygen despite repeated questions about it, Conley said, \u201cI was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude\u201d of the team and the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction, and in doing so, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn\u2019t necessarily true,\u201d Conley said.<\/p>\n<p>The president first tested positive after he returned from a fundraiser at his New Jersey golf resort on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters on Sunday evening. Trump made an appearance on Fox News on Thursday night before disclosing on Twitter shortly after midnight on Friday that he had tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Trump campaign senior aide Jason Miller said on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d on Sunday that Trump would soon be \u201cready to get back to the campaign trail,\u201d and in a separate appearance on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d Miller downplayed a new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll that showing Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, leading Trump by 14 percentage points. The campaign is optimistic about Trump\u2019s prospects in key battleground states needed to get to 270 electoral votes, he said.<\/p>\n<p>But almost 3.3 million people have already cast ballots for the Nov. 3 election, according to data compiled by University of Florida professor Michael McDonald. David Gergen, a former White House aide to both Democrats and Republicans, said it\u2019s unacceptable that the Americans public doesn\u2019t know the full extent of Trump\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe voters should have full information about the outlook for the president\u2019s health before they cast a vote,\u201d Gergen said on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Questions have also arisen about whether Trump\u2019s White House and campaign events became super spreader locations for the virus. Hope Hicks, a top aide to the president; his campaign manager, Bill Stepien; his debate coach, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie; and Republican Senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Mike Lee of Utah and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin have tested positive for coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, said on CBS it\u2019s \u201clikely\u201d there will be additional Covid-19 cases stemming from the outbreak in the White House and among Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who was with the president on Tuesday, Wednesday is not in the clear,\u201d Gottlieb said on \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A debate between Vice President Mike Pence and California Senator Kamala Harris, Biden\u2019s running mate, is set to take place at the University of Utah on Wednesday. Biden, whose campaign said Sunday night that he again tested negative for Covid-19, is scheduled to travel to Florida on Monday for a campaign event in Miami and an NBC News town hall.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said it won\u2019t be safe for the Senate to move ahead with Supreme Court hearings for Amy Coney Barrett given the virus outbreak that sickened the three Republican senators. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the hearings would go forward as scheduled on Oct. 12 and that senators could attend remotely, though they would have to be present for a vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unfinished Business<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other unfinished business in Washington involves a new stimulus package to bolster an economic recovery and help for beleaguered airlines. Trump tweeted on Saturday that the country \u201cwants &amp; needs stimulus,\u201d and he urged the parties to \u201cwork together and get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke with the president on Saturday to discuss the administration\u2019s efforts to pass another round of stimulus, according to one person familiar with the the matter. The administration still sees the best pitch for more coronavirus relief at about $1.5 trillion, the person said.<\/p>\n<p>House Democrats last Thursday passed a $2.2 trillion package as their latest offer, and Pelosi said on CBS that \u201cwe are making progress.\u201d But when asked whether anything could happen this week, she said that will depend on whether Republicans \u201cunderstand what we have to do to crush the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/437879\/here-is-the-official-petrol-price-for-october-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here is the official petrol price for October<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s condition remains clouded by confusion over his treatment for Covid-19, with the president\u2019s effort to show strength contradicted by conflicting accounts from his doctors that raise doubts about how soon he\u2019ll be able return to work and his re-election campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":431650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[6690],"class_list":["post-437899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437909,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437899\/revisions\/437909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}