From that POV, especially in a situation like this (death is actually on the line and the president supporters (and haters) are both very extreme in their views, perhaps the doctors should be a bit more shielded from the public eye.
Let the doctors do their work and have spokespeople from/for the hospital do the press conferences.
A couple of things:
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Where’s Ivanka? Haven’t heard from her at all. Even Eric has made it through the noise.
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It’s almost 2pm and no update? Anyone still think he is being released today?
Well obviously he became immune to hydroxychloroquine.
No, wait. The virus became immune to hydroxychloroquine. It was inevitable.
The UK study didn’t prove (to statistical significance) that it was damaging in mild cases. But obviously there’s a strong mechanistic reason to think that it could be; and there was no demonstrated benefit for anyone with mild enough symptoms that they do not at least require oxygen. So it’s certainly not something you might prescribe “just in case” in marginal cases, you’d always be weighing potential benefit vs risk of harm.
Stalin’s doctors had it easier.
I’m predicting a heavy dose of dex, then another jaunt up and down the street for some adulation from the vast crowds of well-wishers, this time tied to a horse with a broomstick up his back to keep him upright.
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We have hardly had half a dozen completely bonkers news stories today, so whatever happens with his release is going to be absolutely bugshit. Nothing so simple as a release will happen.
They’re warming up the Sikorsky for the 5pm “I’m feeling better!” lap around the beltway.
Or:
- He’s demanding that his doctors give him every possible therapy, whether indicated/proven or not, so that he can skip the quarantine and get back on the
campaign trailrally circuit.
Disclaimer: I’m somewhat cynical about medications — a legacy of my GP father, on whom be peace. Whenever I hear “Ask your doctor about {OurMiracleCure}” in an ad, my mind automatically translates it to “Demand that your doctor prescribe {OurMiracleCure}!!!”
(More on Joe not doing negative ads, for now)
Agree (unless and until Trump makes a more or less full recovery).
Could be a blessing in disguise — I think a lot of voters want to hear more about what Joe will do as president, and what kind of guy he is, rather than another recounting of the thousand ways Trump is demonstrably awful.
This. Forget trump. Talk about next year and the country’s direction.
Trump’s getting out, y’all–and he feels GRRRREAT!
In other words, steroids are a hell of a drug.
I will laugh myself silly if he walks out the door of the hospital and face-plants onto the sidewalk.
Yep, they’re going to load him up with dex or something, he’ll be out of the hospital (and the staff will, no doubt, breathe a sigh of relief), then it will be tweet-tweet-tweet until the drugs wear off. Og knows what happens next.
He times everything for the news cycle, he just happens to get out at 6:30.
It’s all about him not being in the hospital during the VP debate. He knows Biden would hammer Pence about him being in the hospital. So drug me up and get me out. Jezz this guy.
That would be a VP debate, but I don’t think it’s the one they’re planning.
I think Biden is too classy to do that.
Also, he won’t be there. Harris is debating Pence.
What if he decides to show up. Can/would they prevent him from entering?
Someone in the Democratic party needs to do a calculation of just how much Trump’s treatment, if they could have even got it, would have cost, even with insurance with copayments
I guess he could sit in the audience, but I’d worry about the Rona if I were him. No idea what the rules are.