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In an exceptionally good spirit, US President Donald Trump who is currently being treated for coronavirus told his physicians that he feels he can walk out of the hospital today.
President Trump is doing very well, the physician to the US president, Sean Conley, said on Saturday.
The doctor, as well as his team, made this known during a live broadcast aired by CNN from the Walter Reed Medical Centre, the hospital where Trump is currently being treated for the deadly virus in Maryland, at 11am US time.
”In fact, as we were completing our routine this morning he said ’I feel like I can walk out of here today’ and that was very encouraging words from the president,” Sean Dooley, one of the doctors attending to Trump said during the media brief.
According to the doctor, he admires Trump’s cardiac function; ”the president this morning is not on oxygen and is not having difficulty breathing.”
Trump, 74, went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a stay of a few days Friday evening after testing positive for coronavirus
”President Trump on Thursday had a mild cough, fever and fatigue and all of which are now resolving and proving,” Conley said.
The physician to the President said he recommended that Trump be brought to Reed for precautionary measures, monitoring, and for any care he made need.
”My team and I are extremely happy with the ”progress the present had made, ” he said, adding that ”all indications show he will remain off oxygen as he receiving standard of care and beyond.”
Meanwhile, CNN reported on Saturday that more than half a dozen of Trump’s cycle has tested positive to COVID-19 and there are fears that they may have also made contact with others as they have recently attended election campaigns and fundraising events.
”White House is doing the contact tracing of all the people that he had close contact with, ” the doctors said.
