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  • doctors treating President Trump for coronavirus say that he is continuing to improve on could leave hospital for the White House as early as tomorrow.

  • They also gave more details about his treatment, revealing that he is on the steroid dexamethasone on a five day course of the antiviral drug remedies.

  • Severe.

  • After confusion yesterday about the president's condition, the doctors also said that he had twice required supplemental oxygen.

  • Our North America editor, John.

  • So Paul reports I came here wasn't feeling so well.

  • I feel much better now.

  • Donald Trump has always believed that his best communications director is himself.

  • And after a day of evasion, contradiction, model and corrections, the president last night from his suite of the Walter Reed Hospital decided he'd better take charge.

  • We're gonna beat this coronavirus or whatever you wanna call it, and we're gonna beat it soundly.

  • The president, still infectious but not wearing a mask, sounded horse and looked pale.

  • This is a president who is always equated sickness with weakness.

  • But his usual bullishness was replaced last night with a little more hesitancy about his own health.

  • So I just want to tell you that I'm starting to feel good.

  • Uh, you don't know over the next period of a few days.

  • I guess that's the real test.

  • So we'll be seeing what happens over the next couple of days.

  • With his supporters forming a noisy, makeshift vigil outside the hospital, the president said he had a choice he could have hidden away or carried on meeting the public.

  • I can't do that.

  • I had to be out front.

  • And this is America.

  • This is the United States.

  • This is the greatest country in the world.

  • This is the most powerful country in the world.

  • I can't be locked up in a room upstairs another day, Another medical bulletin on attempt to clear up the misinformation mess from yesterday.

  • So why did Dr Conley say what he did?

  • I was trying to reflect the the upbeat attitude that the team, the President that, of course, of illness has had.

  • Um, I didn't want to give any any information that might, uh, steer the course of illness in another direction.

  • On doing so, uh, you know, it came off that we're trying to hide something which wasn't really true.

  • It wasn't necessarily true.

  • Those sound like the words of a spin doctor, not a real doctor.

  • Today, he revealed they'd be in a couple of alarming drops in his blood oxygen levels.

  • But another of the medics insisted the president is improving on could soon be going home if he continues to look and feel as well as he does today.

  • Our hope is that we can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow to the White House, where he can continue his treatment course.

  • Hello, Hello, Joe Biden is still on the virtual road campaigning.

  • Polling day is less than a month away.

  • All elections feel uncertain, but there's never been a president hospitalized in the final stages of a campaign in the midst of a pandemic.

  • If anyone tells you they know what's going to happen next, don't believe them on John is live outside the hospital in Maryland.

  • Now what is your reading, John of what we learned today and how it compared to what we knew before?

  • Well, I think there is such a disjunction by certain aspects of what we're learning.

  • So in your introduction, Michelle, you gave a list of the sort of drugs that Donald Trump has been prescribed by his doctors these air drugs that are used often as a last resort when the patient is really seriously ill.

  • Yet at the same time we're being told by his medics, Everything's fine.

  • Everything's under control.

  • Nothing much to worry about.

  • Well, if there was nothing much to worry about, frankly, he wouldn't be in the Walter Reed Hospital right now on.

  • The other thing that's really important to say is we're doing this hour by hour by hour.

  • What we've learned about coronavirus is this.

  • The 7 to 10 10 day period where things could get potentially very serious.

  • And so, even if, though Donald Trump goes back to the White House tomorrow, that doesn't mean he's out of the woods.

  • So days ahead, toe watch for him and 30 days to go till the election.

  • Yeah, and so much uncertainty and so much that we just don't know how it's going toe pan out.

  • Joe Biden is still campaigning, but his adverts have changed.

  • There is a result of what has happened.

  • Andi have also had the latest polls out today after the debate, which showed Joe Biden having almost doubled his lead over Donald Trump.

  • But those polls were taken before the president became ill.

  • And we don't know whether there will be a feeling of sympathy towards the president of presidents bouncing back if he seemed to be a warrior spirit.

  • And, having overcome this so huge uncertainties don't know how they're going to campaign.

  • Don't know whether they will be out on the road.

  • It all is.

  • Everything is very much up in the air, John.

  • So blonde North America editor.

  • Thank you.

doctors treating President Trump for coronavirus say that he is continuing to improve on could leave hospital for the White House as early as tomorrow.

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