Trump doctors have administered steroid used for severely ill COVID patients
President Donald Trump, who on Friday disclosed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, is now being treated with dexamethasone, a steroid that is primarily used to treat severely ill, hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
The president was previously prescribed Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s REGN, -0.58% still investigational antibody treatment on Friday and Gilead Sciences Inc.’s GILD, -1.81% remdesivir on Saturday. Conley also confirmed for the first time that Trump was briefly on supplemental oxygen Friday morning, noting that at that time he had a high fever and “his oxygen saturation was transiently dipping below 94%.” His oxygen-saturation level also dropped down to 93% on Saturday. Conley said he was unsure whether Trump had been given a second round of supplemental oxygen on Saturday.
“In response to transient low oxygen levels … we did initiate dexamethasone therapy,” Dr. Brian Garibaldi, director of the biocontainment unit at Johns Hopkins Medicine and one of the physicians on Trumps’s care team at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, said during the news conference on Sunday. “Our plan is to continue that for the time being.”
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