Doctors still evasive on Trump’s health as he leaves hospital
Enlarge / A car with US President Trump drives past supporters in a motorcade outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on October 4, 2020. (credit: Getty | Alex Edelman)
After being hospitalized several days for a coronavirus infection and receiving two experimental treatments, supplemental oxygen, and a steroid drug used only for the most severe COVID-19 cases, President Donald Trump on Monday tweeted that he would be leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and returning to the White House.
In a press briefing Monday afternoon, White House physician Sean Conley readily acknowledged that Trump has not yet reached a critical period of his infection-roughly, days seven to 10 after symptoms-in which COVID-19 patients' conditions can quickly and dramatically deteriorate from overzealous immune responses. Trump is believed to be at around day six of his symptomatic infection.
Though he may not entirely be out of the woods yet," Trump's condition has improved and his medical team cleared him to return to the White House, where he'll be surrounded by world-class medical care, 24/7," Conley explained.
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