Fox News medical contributor provides his outlook for the president on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'
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Daily Aspirin, as well as a
cocktail of other drugs.
What do we know as of tonight
as of right now about the
presidents condition?
We know that hes been moved to
a hospital.
What does that tell us if
anything,
Dr Marc Siegel, is a Fox news.
Medical contributor
hes been following this since
the beginning and joins us
tonight,
doctor good to see you
Tucker. I have to tell you
that over the years ive watched
people in terms of how they
respond to illness when im
training them
covid 19 is no exception. To
that
ive been watching the patients
recover from it and im
heartened today to see how the
president is responding to begin
with,
with cheer with strength with
courage.
Maybe we can get some national
healing out of this.
That would be really great
wouldnt it
in the hospital we know, hes
taking monoclonal antibodies,
Regeneron product
early studies seems to show that
it boosts your immune response
and decreases the amount of
virus.
We know that people with low
amounts of vitamin d dont do as
well so hes taking vitamin d
weve heard and looks him in
some studies that zinc helps
more zinc decreases the amount
of virus in your body
also aspirin.
We have had a lot of blood
clotting problems with Covid 19,
which I have talked to you
about
the fact that they cities on
aspirin
looks like a lot of careful
consideration, went into it
whats he doing in the hospital
people worried about that.
As Kevin just said, its a big
sweet and its a matter of
precaution,
he may be doing quite well.
Why would we want to observe
him?
We want to see what his oxygen
level is.
We want to see that his
heart rate is okay,
as I mentioned already want. To
make sure no blood clotting is
forming and no inflammation is
going on.
All of that is a matter of
precaution,
its not a sign of a severe
illness.
It may very well still be a mild
illness
and a precautionary one.
The whole country is looking
here and im, hoping that both
sides of the political aisle
will say not criticism, not
anything that the president is
standing up against illness
lets all be with him and wish
and pray for a very quick
recovery,
amen,
youve treated coronavirus
patients,
youve watched this disease,
since it first landed here in
the United States,
tell us the typical course of it
in a a man, the presidents age.
At what point will we know hes
on the upswing or the downswing?
Thats really important
question
his age of seventy four. You know, even at
the age of seventy four about ninety five percent get
full recoveries
less than five percent die from this, even
at his age,
a little bit on the overweight
side that concerns me, but he
doesnt have other pre existing
conditions, which is great
doesnt have diabetes,
doesnt, have renal failure,
doesnt have known heart disease
or lung disease, all of which
bodes well here.
He came in with the initial
symptoms of fatigue, reported
fatigue, fever and some cough
thats, very classic.
What im going to be looking for
over the next several days is:
do those things get worse?
Do those symptoms get worse?
Does the fever get worse?
Does the fatigue get worse?
How are his lungs doing?
How is his breathing
his heart and his kidneys and
his brain also
the major organs of the body?
How are they doing in the house, his breathing going
his breathing going
thats what we will be watching
also his courage to fight
illness, which we are already
sitting on display Tucker
right,
I dont pick. Anyone is surprised
by that.
So by Monday you think we will
have a better sense of how this
illness is progressing.
Yes, because, as we have
talked about here extensively,
this is not one illness,
its two illnesses,
illness number, one of the virus
illness number two is the damage
it can do in terms of
inflammation in the lungs and
the other side of things.
We should be able to know by
about Monday or Tuesday whether
those complications are kicking
in or not
thats. Why hes there for
precautionary purposes,
we should be able to tell by the
beginning of next week.
We will still want to see him.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-09.