Donald Trump

josevolution

pjhawks said:

watch he and the republicans will now try to delay the election since he can't campaign for at least 2 weeks.

Good point!

josevolution

Just about all his administration needs to be quarantined and the WH fumigated! 

Poncier

PJNB said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Bob Woodward, “He’s a Warrior, he’s a fighter.” Please.

What a hero! 

Gutfeld is a complete buffoon.

Halifax2TheMax

Maybe the Proud Boys ought to converge on Walter Reed and make sure none of those Deep State dem doctors attempt any monkey business?

static111

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

he looked fine to me

Apparently this was him prior to going to the hospital...

Clearly a doppelgänger 

Lerxst1992

It’s very possible people on Bidens team were exposed at the debate, as it takes a few days for the infection to generate a positive test result. Will Teflon Don be immune to that political fallout as the trump family did not take the required covid tests in Cleveland nor did they wear masks at the debate.

josevolution

Halifax2TheMax said:

Maybe the Proud Boys ought to converge on Walter Reed and make sure none of those Deep State dem doctors attempt any monkey business?

Maybe they should convene at the WH  just to make sure no anti president protest happen!

static111

Hey y’all I just tested negative for sympathy.  

Halifax2TheMax

I vote for presidents who aren’t fatigued.

mrussel1

static111 said:

Hey y’all I just tested negative for sympathy.  

Wasted emotion, so Breitbart tells me. 

cutz

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1312129925692813312

DewieCox

Fuck your feelings!!

HughFreakingDillon

PJNB said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

ConorKavanagh said:

Anyone I have met today is laughing about this. Obviously I don't wish that the man was dead, but hopefully he has some kind of "saw the light" moment.

i  understand the sentiment. but come on, teachers, there's a time and place. i shouldn't have to sit my daughter down, which i just did, and tell her it's never ok to be happy that someone is ill. 

jesus christ. 

I am not questioning your daughter about the teachers reactions but if it was me I would be 100% certain my daughter explained to me in detail exactly what happened and what was said before I went to the school. Tough spot to be in but if they were openly cheering in front of kids that is sick and I would definitely probably say something. 

i did clarify with her afterwards and got the exact details. it wasn't as bad as she initially made it out to be, but still, talking openly within earshot of elementary students about how you're "sort of glad he caught it" because of how reckless he's been, it doesn't matter. kids interpret and spread things in a different way, as my 11 year old did. 

OnWis97

Lerxst1992 said:

It’s very possible people on Bidens team were exposed at the debate, as it takes a few days for the infection to generate a positive test result. Will Teflon Don be immune to that political fallout as the trump family did not take the required covid tests in Cleveland nor did they wear masks at the debate.

I have always believed that he would never lose favor with his fans. And this would not change that belief.

HughFreakingDillon

i'm going full on cynical here with his taking of that experimental drug. this is his new hydroxychloroquine. he's going to claim it cured him, buy up all the stock, and make millions, before it's proven. calling himself a hero for sacrificing himself for the american people by testing the drug on himself. 

HughFreakingDillon

Ledbetterman10 said:

Video message from Trump....

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1312158400352972800?s=21

easily the most presidential video he's ever made. 

mrussel1

Shit just gets crazier every day. 

Halifax2TheMax

KellyAnn CONway has tested positive and she was hugging and leaning in close with CYA Barr at the White House the other day. How do you like them alternative facts?

Meltdown99

I think it means very little that POTUS is hospitalized.  It's more like after than a day of quarantine Flotus got sick of POTUS and gave him the boot...and since he pays so much in taxes he is going to get some back in free hospital accommodations...

oftenreading

Reported info on the experimental treatment(s), and more conventional treatment, he's receiving:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/02/donald-trump-receiving-treatment-yet-to-be-peer-reviewed

Donald Trump is being treated with an experimental antibody drug that has shown promising initial early results but has yet to be peer-reviewed. According to statement from his doctor, the president has received a single eight-gram dose of an antibody cocktail called REGN-COV2 – a combination of two human neutralising antibodies against the virus.

The treatment was developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, which previously developed a similar antibody drug against Ebola. He is also taking zinc, vitamin D, melatonin, aspirin and the heartburn drug famotidine – often sold in the US under the brand name Pepcid. Although the drug has not been shown to work against coronavirus, researchers are studying it as a possible treatment.

REGN-COV2 is part of a class of experimental Covid-19 drugs known as monoclonal antibodies: manufactured copies of human antibodies to the virus that are being studied for use in patients with early illness.

Data so far is limited, but the White House coronavirus adviser Anthony Fauci is among those saying it has shown promise.

In a press release earlier this week, Regeneron said the early trial results showed that treatment reduced viral levels and improved symptoms in non-hospitalised Covid-19 patients.

But doctors have said that the president has numerous health factors placing him at risk of complications from Covid-19, including his age and weight.

The White House announced on Friday that the 74-year-old president would be moved to the Walter Reed hospital in Washington DC “out of an abundance of caution, and at the recommendation of his physician and medical experts”.

Both Trump and his wife Melania were earlier described as displaying “mild symptoms” after testing positive.

While doctors expect symptoms such as headache, fever and loss of taste to emerge in the first week of infection, it is in the second week when patients can go dangerously downhill as the virus spreads to the lungs and causes problems with breathing.

As an older man, Trump is already in a high-risk group and being borderline obese raises the risk further.

Figures from around the world suggest the so-called infection fatality rate for someone in their mid-70s is about 4%, but men are nearly twice as likely to die as women and being obese triples the risk of hospital admission.

Trump’s positive test adds to a wealth of evidence that hydroxychloroquine, a drug he said he was taking earlier in the year, does not prevent Covid-19, but over the past nine months clinical trials have found beneficial treatments.

Fever and headache can be helped with paracetamol. Throughout the course of the infection doctors will monitor Trump’s vital signs and blood oxygen saturation, which reveals how the lungs are functioning.

Other treatments are normally reserved for patients in hospital, but remdesivir, an antiviral drug, is thought to be most effective when given early, while the virus is still replicating.

US doctors have raised fresh concerns over Trump’s high levels of “bad cholesterol”, which they claimed put him at risk of a stroke or heart attack.

Given the potential underlying health issues, doctors may be poised to administer antiplatelet or anticoagulant drugs if they fear he is at risk of blood clots.

Dr Barry Dixon, an intensive care doctor at St Vincent’s hospital in Melbourne, said Trump’s risk would increase if he developed pneumonia, which is associated with a high mortality rate, especially in patients over 65 and those with cardiovascular disease or conditions affecting blood vessels of the brain.

“He’s at a much higher risk of dying if he does develop that bad pneumonia,” Dixon said. “There are other risk factors and comorbidities, such as whether you are a heavy smoker, have diabetes, or have heart disease.

Dixon said mild symptoms at the onset did not indicate someone would avoid more severe disease. He said around the one-week mark people either seemed to improve or decline rapidly.

“We tend to see people with very mild symptoms for the first week, that is typical, and in the second week typically people either develop pneumonia or not,” he said.

“If you see someone who just got it, they’ve just tested positive, typically they look well. But we would tell those patients to isolate at home and to come to hospital if they feel short of breath. Because in that second week of the virus, people can go from looking very good to pretty rotten even over just 24 to 48 hours. It’s a quick deterioration, and that’s what we saw with Boris Johnson.”

Prof Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases doctor in Canberra, said: “If he’s well enough to walk and breathe OK, then he’d be fine to go home for a while. But a proportion will deteriorate between five to seven days later, so you’d need to monitor how he is breathing and how he looks.”

Prof Christine Jenkins, head of the respiratory group at the George Institute for Global Health, said while “Trump’s ideas about prophylactic hydroxychloroquine treatment and disinfectants were fake news”, he would probably benefit from the many evidence-based scientific advances made.

It was difficult to estimate his chances of being admitted to intensive care or dying, she said, because these statistics changed frequently as treatment improved.

“Early on we thought if you had Covid, were admitted to intensive care and over 70, you had only a 40-to-50% chance of survival,” Jenkins said.

“Today, those figures are not that bad, and we have had study results come out with promising findings about treatments for people who do become severely unwell, such as the drug dexamethasone.”