{"id":95174,"date":"2020-10-05T09:12:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T01:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=95174"},"modified":"2020-10-05T11:26:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T03:26:47","slug":"covid-19-pres-trump-improving-but-doctors-were-very-concerned-wh-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=95174","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Pres Trump improving but doctors were \u2018very concerned\u2019 – WH chief of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) \u2013 White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Saturday Donald Trump\u2019s health, including a fall in his blood oxygen level, had left the president\u2019s doctors \u201cvery concerned\u201d but that he had improved and there was never a risk he would have to hand over power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meadows\u2019 comments to Fox News capped a day of back-and-forth in which conflicting reports about the president\u2019s health created an opaque understanding of the leader\u2019s actual fitness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s made unbelievable improvements from yesterday morning, when I know a number of us, the doctor and I, were very concerned,\u201d Meadows said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s doctors said he has had no fever since Friday morning, however, and could be discharged as early as Monday. Conley declined to answer questions about the president\u2019s lungs, including whether there is scarring or whether Trump has pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aides and doctors have sowed confusion in recent days about Trump\u2019s health status and the timeline of his treatment and diagnosis. The White House on Sunday falsely suggested that doctors did not previously disclose Trump\u2019s use of supplemental oxygen because they lacked the information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later Sunday, Trump made a surprise visit to supporters, waving to them from inside an SUV that slowly drove past the crowds gathered outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outing alarmed Secret Service agents and medical professionals, including a doctor affiliated with Walter Reed who said others in the car were risking their lives for \u201cpolitical theater.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple aides called President Trump\u2019s Sunday drive outside the hospital an unnecessary risk but said the move was not surprising, as White House spokesman Judd Deere defended the outing, telling reporters that \u201cappropriate precautions were taken.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trip drew criticism from Secret Service agents and from doctors, who said it put others in the car at risk, exposing them to a coronavirus patient in an enclosed space. Trump wore a mask as he waved to the crowd outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, but experts said they were still deeply concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump had said he was bored in the hospital and was buoyed by crowds outside, advisers said. Campaign and White House officials said the president wanted to show strength after White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows offered a grimmer assessment of Trump\u2019s health than doctors at a Saturday news briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deere told reporters that \u201cappropriate precautions were taken in the execution of this movement to protect the President and all those supporting it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said precautions included personal protective equipment and added that the trip \u201cwas cleared by the medical team as safe to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He did not answer other questions, including whether the president requested the drive. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) \u2013 White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Saturday Donald Trump\u2019s health, including a fall in his blood oxygen level, had left the president\u2019s doctors \u201cvery concerned\u201d but that he had improved and there was never a risk he would have to hand over power. Meadows\u2019 comments to Fox News […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":95245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}