{"id":30333,"date":"2020-10-03T15:16:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T19:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=30333"},"modified":"2020-10-03T15:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T19:23:26","slug":"30333","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=30333","title":{"rendered":"Why is President Trump allowing himself to be used for Remdesivir?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump does NOT require \u2018any supplemental oxygen\u2019, but started on Remdesivir antiviral therapy \u2013 White House physician<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_30334\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30334\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5f77fd3785f54043ab7fc090.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5f77fd3785f54043ab7fc090.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5f77fd3785f54043ab7fc090-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marine One carries US President Donald Trump away from the White House on the way to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, October 2, 2020 \u00a9  Win McNamee \/ Getty Images \/ AFP<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has begun taking an antiviral therapy after testing positive for the coronavirus, his doctor said, noting that he is responding well so far and does not require supplemental oxygen to aid his breathing.<\/p>\n<p><em data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u201cThis afternoon, in consultation with specialists from Walter Reed and Johns Hopkins University, I recommended movement of the president up to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for further monitoring,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0wrote Sean Conley, the president\u2019s physician.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em data-stringify-type=\"italic\">I am very happy to report that the president is doing very well. He is not requiring any supplemental oxygen, but in consultation with specialists we have elected to\u00a0initiate Remdesivir therapy. He has completed his first dose and is resting comfortably.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1312234451657805824&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F502432-trump-remdesivir-no-supplemental-oxygen%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1312234451657805824\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump announced that both he and the first lady had contracted the illness in the early hours of Friday morning, and he has since been moved to the Walter Reed center for treatment on Conley\u2019s advice. In his last post on Twitter late on Friday night, Trump said his stay at the hospital was\u00a0<em>\u201cgoing well.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1312233807991496704&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F502432-trump-remdesivir-no-supplemental-oxygen%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1312233807991496704\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump aide Hope Hicks was the first in a series of White House officials and lawmakers to test positive, with her results made public on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Less than one day later, 9 others have reported contracting the illness, including a White House staffer, three reporters, former presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, GOP Sens. Mike Lee (Utah) and Thom Tillis (North Carolina) and University of Notre Dame president Rev. John Jenkins. All of them attended a White House event last Saturday, where Trump announced his new Supreme Court pick, Amy Coney Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/502432-trump-remdesivir-no-supplemental-oxygen\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/502432-trump-remdesivir-no-supplemental-oxygen\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump does NOT require \u2018any supplemental oxygen\u2019, but started on Remdesivir antiviral therapy \u2013 White House physician<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}