Military Times 10/3/2020
Military Times reporter Leo Shane, Marine Corps Times reporter Philip Athey and Air Force Times reporter Stephen Losey contributed to this report.
Chief of staff: Next 48 hours critical for COVID-stricken President Trump. Pentagon: no change in posture.
President Donald Trump’s doctor said he is doing “very well†as he spends the weekend at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment of COVID-19.
Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley, physician to the president, said Trump has been fever-free for 24 hours as he updated the nation on the president’s condition from the hospital Saturday morning. Trump was admitted Friday after testing positive for the coronavirus.
However, Trump went through a “very concerning†period Friday and the next 48 hours “will be critical†in his care as he battles the coronavirus at a hospital, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Saturday. Meadows' comments contradicted the rosy assessment of Trump’s condition offered by his staff and doctors, who took pains not to reveal the president had received supplemental oxygen at the White House before his hospital admission.
“We’re still not on a clear path yet to a full recovery,†said a weary Meadows.
It was a dramatically different picture than the one painted by the White House staff since Trump revealed his diagnosis as well as by his doctors, who updated the public at a press conference at Walter Reed.
The briefing by Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley and other doctors raised more questions than it answered as Conley repeatedly refused to say whether the president ever needed supplemental oxygen, despite persistent questioning, and declined to discuss exactly when he fell ill. Conley also revealed that Trump began exhibiting “clinical indications†of COVID-19 on Thursday afternoon, earlier than previously known.
“Thursday no oxygen. None at this moment. And yesterday with the team, while we were all here, he was not on oxygen,†Conley said.
But according to a person familiar with Trump’s condition, Trump was administered oxygen at the White House on Friday before he was transported to the military hospital. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity,
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