His health is being monitored, Jedediah Fox NEWS, medical contributor, Dr Mark Siegel, joins us now to react. Thank you for joining us today, Dr Siege, L. First and foremost, your reaction to the treatment that the president is receiving at Walter Reed, including the medication medications that have been administered thus far good morning, Jed. I think that its very interesting what hes getting and you can make a case for each thing. The remdesivir that was added has been shown in a study in the New England Journal of Medicine to decrease the amount of time it takes to recover by about three days in over one thousand patients thats in people that have moderate illness now, thats. Another reason he would have gone to the hospital by the way Jed, because its administered intravenously and a close friend of his who spoke to him last night, said that the president told me that the president was feeling well a little tired and kind of bothered he had to go to the hospital, but he felt he could work there. Even when hes tired, he has more energy than a lot of people, some of the other cocktails hes

getting there pepcid. The stomach medication looks like in some studies that it decreases the risk of having severe Covid 19, maybe because Covid 19 does better in an acid environment were not sure, zinc seems to decrease viral spread, the monoclonal antibodies he got are in the experimental stage, but a study, some information out just last week shows that it too decreases the amount of virus. Now the less virus you have, the less likely youre going to have severe complications. Will Dr Siegel? What do you expect the seventy two hours the next couple days to being loo like for the president? How long do you expect him to be in the hospital? I think its going to be observational? I fully expect him to be in the hospital for several days. Dont forget he has a working office suite in the hospital there, its precautionary monitoring his oxygen level, a good sign, hes, not taking oxygen right now per his physician

thats, a really good sign but thats, something that needs to be monitored and also the risk of blood clots, and to speak to something that was just said before I came on. This is not a time for political divisiveness. This is a time to bring out the best in people to wish well the commander in chief and the president. This is the time for that and to Jedediahs point its also a time for people to rethink what practices theyre doing on the street. This can be a time to learn, to wear more masks and have more distancing and wash your hands more and watch out for this virus more because the fall is coming and the virus may spread even more W. Dr Mark Siegel. Thank you very much for your insight. This.