Before stricken with Covid-19 symptoms after a positive test Thursday, Oct. 1, President Donald Trump continued his interview with Fox News primetime host Sean Hannity. Wall Street Journal reported, without naming sources, Trump received a positive test before his 6 PM interview with Hannity, prompting the anti-Trump media to slam the president for not disclosing his positive result sooner. But had Trump announced on Hannity that he tested positive for coronavirus AKA CoV-2 or Covid-19, it would have compromised U.S. national security, no problem exposing Hannity because the interview was done over the phone. Following the interview with Hannity, Trump’s symptoms deteriorated so much by Friday at the White House physician Dr. Sean Conley administered oxygen treatment when Trump developed fever, shortness of breath and test low oxygen.
Trump fever go so high and his oxygen levels dropped so much that Dr. Conley hospitalize the president at Walter Reed Medical Center. Before he was airlifted Saturday morning, Oct. 3, from the White House lawn to Walter Reed Medical Center, Trump had already received Regeneron’s polyclonal antibody treatment and beginning eight-gram does of Gilead Sciences anti-viral drug Remdesivir. While Remdesivir enjoys emergency FDA approval, Regeneron’s polsyclonal antibody treatments is still experimental. Trump been a real trooper accepting Dr. Conley’s treatments, despite draining his energy. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), one of Trump worst enemies on Capitol Hill, blamed the president for not taking the virus seriously, getting infected. Trump held a busy schedule starting last week with a Rose Garden ceremony for his new Supreme Court pick.
Pelosi and 77-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden immediately slammed Trump for his own negligence. But like anyone doing anything in crowds, there’s always a risk of contracting Covid-19. Several people attending Amy Coney Barrett’s Sept. 26 Rose Garden ceremony got the virus, including Notre Dame President John I Jenkins came down with the virus. Who at the Rose Garden ceremony had an active Covid-19 infection is anyone’s guess. Told to avoid crowds by the World Health Organization [WHO] and Centers for Disease Control [CDC], Trump’s reluctance to follow guidelines has cost him in the polls. Getting Covid-19 amounts to a giant “I told you so,” leaving the president scrambling to make his case for a second term to the American people. Getting Covid-19 underscored Trump’s failures to manage the deadly infectious disease crisis over the last six months.
Democrats and Biden have made their 2020 campaign about Trump’s incompetent management of the Covid-19 crisis. Former Washington Post journalist-turned-Democrat-political-hack 78-year-old Bob Woodward said Trump “downplayed” the virus back in Jan. and Feb. Biden repeats Woodward’s talking points blaming Trump for the 214,611 deaths in the U.S., claiming Trump should have declared a national pandemic in Jan. or Feb. Woodward’s charge has played well for Biden, who’s making the case against Trump’s management of the Covid-19. Back in Jan. there were only a few cases with the first death recorded in the U.S. Feb. 29. With only a few cases and one death by Feb. 29, Woodward insisted Trump failed to notify the country. His argument was so preposterous yet it’s found a home in the 2020 Democrat Party playbook to blame Trump for not doing enough.
Sending Trump out in a limo today to waive to well-wishers around Walter Reed Medical Center was the president’s way of saying not to loose hope. With Democrats slamming Trump for negligence managing Covd-19, Trump’s got little left to make his case to the American people before the election. With the clock ticking, Trump doesn’t have much time left between now and the Nov. 3 election. Trump’s enemies have pounced on his Covid-19 diagnosis, not realizing that it’s the highly infections nature of the virus with-or-without wearing masks. Biden slams Trump routinely for not wearing a face-covering or circulating in public. Trump has been holding large campaign rallies, something unique to Trump’s theatrics running for president, commanding large crowds, unlike Biden who has no such appeal. Yet Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis and treatment makes campaigning impossible for at least two weeks.
Dr. Conely said Trump’s treatment team is working on the president’s discharge plan from Walter Reed. Whether that happens tomorrow or not is anyone’s guess. Trump hasn’t completed his Remdesivir treatments and could continue to take dexamethasone injections at the White House. As long as Trump’s oxygen saturation continues at 98%, Trump’s doctors may have no problem discharging him. Posting a few videos while receiving treatment at Walter Reed, Trump looked washed out, not himself. If he continues to look exhausted, he’s not going to be ready to resume his campaign until testing negative for Covid-19. If Trump recuperates quickly from Covid-19, it’s going to be a medical miracle for someone his age and body weight. Trump’s base won’t waver in their support of the president. But his Covid-19 diagnosis and hospitalization certainly has changed some minds.
