Name: Trump condition was 'very concerning' - BBC News
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Let's cross Live now to the Walter Reed Medical Center, where Mr Trump is being treated, and speak to our correspondent Lee Boo DeCecco.

We were hearing there from the president's doctors that he's doing very well.

But they didn't really want to comment on specifics, especially not whether he'd ever had oxygen.

There are a number of questions that have been raised, a za result off that press conference.

Also, the teen said that he was diagnosed 72 hours ago.

On actually here only announced that he had coronavirus on Friday.

Similarly, as you said, journalists did press on whether he's received oxygen at all.

Three answer was that he's not at not taking oxygen at the moment.

In the last few minutes, we've had a statement from the White House, Paul.

Now they are usually briefed by very senior members of the White House that we do have to take this very seriously.

What they're saying is that the president's vitals over the last 24 hours were concerning on the next 48 hours will be critical in terms off his care.

We're still not on a clear path to recovery.

Obviously, that is a very different tone from that.

Off the press conference, we heard the update from Donald Trump's medical team.

Well, let's speak to our senior North America reporter, Anthony Zerka.

So, Anthony, we have then the president's position, giving rather a glowing report of his health.

But then a source familiar with the president's health tells the White House pool the president's vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning.

In the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care.

We're still not on a clear path to a full recovery.

What are we to make of the dissonance there?

Well, what we were to make of it is if the goal of this press conference here on Saturday morning was to put the nation's mind at ease, that the president is doing well that his medical team is on top of everything and in charge, that was not a successful mission.

All they've done is create mawr confusion, thanks to the conflicting statements about how the president's doing about whether he was on oxygen in the past or not.

On also the timeline, as we mentioned earlier The timeline about when the president was diagnosed 72 hours ago would put it on Wednesday when the president revealed he was diagnosed at 1 a.m. local time on Friday morning.

Now the White House has come out since then and said no.

The doctor, Sean Conley, meant three days ago Thursday night that he started drugs also on Thursday night to treat the diagnosis.

But the fact that they're having to clean this up now immediately after a press conference whose goal was to settle things down is just a remarkable mishandling of this.

We did hear in the press conference that the president is going to be treated with Randy Severe.

It's a five day course, So how long can we expect him to be there?

Well, you know, if you look at CDC Centers for Disease Control guidelines, you are supposed to be if you tested positive in isolation for 10 days after that initial positive test, and you have to be symptom free.

So, uh, what would imagine that it is going to be a while before Donald Trump can hit the campaign trail again?

Whether that means he can go back to the White House and be in isolation there stays at the medical center.

I think we don't have any details on that as well.

But we have to remember the reason he moved to the hospital was because they wanted to have all the different tests, all the different facilities available for him.

So I don't think they're going to try to move him back until they feel like they're out of Woods.

And as that senior administration or someone familiar with the familiar with the president's health said, Eyes said that in the next 48 hours are going to be key.

It was interesting also in that briefing of the president's doctor, how reporters pressed him on Waas, the president ever on oxygen.

And Senator Marco Rubio and ally of the president's Republican senator in Florida, has said, because of all the conspiracy theories surrounding the president, which are now online, it's critical to get accurate information.

But it seems like now the waters are Mudede doesn't know it does.

I mentioned they were trying to clarify things, but to have the president's position be evasive like that on basic questions like was the president on oxygen?

Uh, I think it undermines the credibility.

Not just so the White House, but of the medical team you have to remember, in crisis situations like this, credibility trust from the media from the American public is invaluable.

And any misstatements that have to be clarified, any miss directions that squanders that credibility that they're going to be relying on to calm the American public to make the world the financial markets more at ease with the situation.

 They we American people, the financial system, everyone else has to have faith that they're getting the truth from the White House and from the physicians Anthony Zuiker Thanks so much for joining us. 