What President Trump’s emergency COVID-19 therapies say about his condition
The president’s medications suggest that he has at least a moderate case of COVID-19—and even as he returns to the White House, details on his condition are still missing.
President Donald Trump’s diagnosis of COVID-19 is the most significant threat to presidential health in decades—and another case among the millions in the United States so far.
On Monday, the president confirmed his intentions to return to the White House, just a day after his physicians disclosed that he has needed supplemental oxygen twice so far—once on Friday morning and again on Saturday—in response to periods when his blood oxygen saturation levels had dipped below 94 percent. Blood oxygen saturation is an indicator of lung function and thus of the severity of a COVID-19 case.
The White House’s physicians are treating the president with a mixture of medications—including an experimental drug known as a monoclonal antibody cocktail, a treatment that has raised
