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Dr. Siegel is 'very heartened' by Trump's early response to COVID-19

2020-10-02 | 🔗
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.
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