Name: Trump’s doctors confirm “dips” in oxygen levels but say he is improving - BBC News
Uploaded: 2020-10-27T19:05:15.000Z
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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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everything is very much up in the air, John.