Name: Trump's medical team gives an update - BBC News
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you haven't argued that I'm feeling good.

Uh, Dr Sean Conley, position to the president.

Now, This morning, I'd like to start by first sharing that the president and first family first lady.

The enormous outpouring of support and prayers that the whole world and country have been providing from sharing.

I'd like to thank Colonel Andrew Barr and all the medical and support staff here at Walter Reed for the tireless efforts providing everything and anything the medical team the president and I could need this morning.

The president is doing very well behind me or some of the members of the president's medical team whom I'd like to introduce.

Major Kurt Klein, Army Nurse Commander Meghan, as worthy Navy nurse.

Lieutenant Giuliana Levodopa, Navy Nurse, Lieutenant Lieutenant Commander John Shea, clinical pharmacist, and not present with us.

Our Lieutenant Beth Carter, Lieutenant Marine, me hand both Navy nurses and Dr Jesse Show, Now director, our executive medicine program.

As reported yesterday, Consultation with this group I recommended we bring the president upto Walter Reed as a precautionary measure to provide state of the art monitoring and any care that he may need just 72 hours into the diagnosis.

Now the first week of co vid on a particular day, 7 to 10 of the most critical in determining the likely course of this illness.

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

At this time, I'd like to bring up Dr Duly to discuss some of the specifics.

I'll start off by mentioning what an incredible how incredibly proud I am of our medical team assembled behind me on the honor has been to care for the president over these last 24 hours.

Here at Walter Reed, he's receiving outstanding multidisciplinary care, the state of science for coronavirus infection.

We are monitoring him very closely for any evidence of complications from either the coronavirus illness or the therapies that were prescribing, too.

And the president this morning is not on oxygen, not having difficulty breathing or walking around the White House Medical Unit upstairs.

And in fact, as we were completing our multidisciplinary rounds this morning, the quote he left us with was I feel like I could walk out of here today.

And that was a very encouraging comment from the president.

I'll go ahead and introduce Dr Garibaldi, who will talk about some of our therapeutics and the plan for plan of Care for today.

And I'd like to echo the sentiment from the entire team with a honor and a privilege.

It is to be part of this most of discipline unit to care for the president.

Um, about 48 hours ago, the president received ah, special antibody therapy directed against the coronavirus, and we're working very closely with the company to monitor him in terms of, uh, that outcome.

Um, yesterday evening he received his first dose of ivory remedy severe, and our plan is to continue a five day treatment course for Romney severe.

And the big plan for today, since he's in such great spirits and doing well, is to encourage him to eat.

It's a drink to stay hydrated, to be up out of bed and to be working and doing the things that he needs to do, uh, to get well, I'll refer Dr Connelly to any questions.

It's important to note the president spend fever free for over 24 hours.

We remain cautiously optimistic, but he's doing great.

Um, with that one other note, it should be clear that he's got plenty of work to get done from the chief of staff.

And he's doing it, Um, but that if there's a couple questions about the president's health, uh, in the last couple days, saturation level, yeah.

So the last saturation that we had up walking around, he was about 96%.

He has not received any supplemental oxygen.

He's not needed anybody any this morning today at all.

Now he's Do you have an estimated date when he might be discharged?

Well, I don't want to put a hard date on that.

But the with a known course of the illness, Day 7 to 10.

We get really concerned about the inflammatory phase.

Phase two, given that we provided some of these advanced therapy so early in the course a little bit earlier than most of the patients we know and follow, Um, it's hard to tell where he is on that course.

And so every day we're evaluating, does he need to be here?

You see is the probability that he will need supplemental oxygen going forward.

I don't wanna put a percentage on that, but right now, all indicators are that, uh, that he'll remain off of oxygen going forward in terms of, like, blood clots, pneumonia, bacterial infection.

Well, we know that all of them are risks associated with this condition.

Um uh Hey is receiving all of the standard of care and beyond, uh, per routine international covert protocols.

Eso we're monitoring for all of that, but at the moment, there is no cause for concern.

Uh, I'd rather not give any specific numbers, but he did have a fever Thursday into Friday.

Uh, eso rendez severe works a little bit differently than the antibodies.

We're maximizing all aspects of his care, attacking, uh, this virus, you know, a multi pronged approach.

If there was any possibility that it would add value to his care and expedite his return, um, I wanted to take it on the team.

What was the date of the president's last negative test?

I'm not gonna get into all the testing going back.

Um, but he and all the staff routine routinely are tested on DSO.