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East coast where donald trump is in hospital receiving experimental treatment for covert 90 his physician is about to give an update on the president s condition from the Walter Reed National military Medical Center thats in maryland you can see the podium there empty at the moment were waiting for him to arrive well go to that just as soon as he does trump had been suffering from fever and fatigue the last update out of the white house on friday night was that the president had not needed any extra oxygen to help him breathe well earlier President Trumpet tweeted that things are going well i think and hes been thanking his supporters mike hanna is outside the hospital in maryland will be speaking to him in just a moment but 1st his report on the developments that have put u. S. Politics into new territory. President to everyone stood. Minutes before he tweeted out this 5000 to thank everybody for the tremendous support. I think. Were going to make sure of the things were the 1st ladys doing. So were thank you very much appreciated. Here. He riped at the wall to retail and once again walked unassisted to a waiting car on his way to a special suite to the hospital where his staff say he will continue to work for the next few days democratic challenger joe biden stood on the same stage as the president on tuesday he tested negative for the virus on friday and sent his best wishes to eating jill and i send our thoughts to President Trump and 1st Lady Melania Trump for a swift recovery we will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his family trump has several risk factors that put him in danger of complications from cope at 19 hughes in his mid seventys and overweight we have to wait for the next 2 days. You know for some people get really sick within hours but you know some people dont get sick until week after and still we have to really be carefully observing the situation trampas often chosen not to wear a mask including at his own rallies where many of his supporters reject the Science Behind the idea. His Team Including family members went mosque at the tuesday debate trump even ridiculed democratic candidate joe biden for wearing a mosque as recommended by virtually all Public Health experts i dont wear mess like him every time you see hes going to miss he could be speaking 200 feet away from him he shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen thanks push and so where the president may have become infected have also turned to a ceremony in on off Supreme Court nominee amy coney beret which took place in the white house rose garden last saturday several people who attended that largely mosque free event have since tested positive House Speaker nancy pelosi sent a best wishes to the president but said this was a lesson to be learnt this is tragic its very sad but it also is something that again is going into crowds unmasked and all the rest the sort of a brazen in the taishan for Something Like this to happen its sad that it did but nonetheless hopeful that it will be a transition to a saner approach to what this virus is all about. Well lets cross to mike now here in maryland and mike and 1st up were expecting this day from the president s decision which should be happening any time no. Questions yes indeed will dr Sean Connelly the personal physician is expected to give us 3 things within the limits he has come under a lot of pressure to release more information to the American People on the president s condition he issued a written a memorandum in the course of the past 24 hours but there has been pressure on him to come and speak to the American People and explain exactly about the president s condition and importantly exactly what form of treatment the president is receiving now we know that he is being given an antibody cocktail an experimental drug thats not its da approved we also know that hes been put on a course of rem disappear now this has been approved by the f. D. A. For emergency use its results data shows are somewhat modest it does reduce it would have a length of stay in a hospital of somebody suffering from coburg but because of its limited quantities as well as generally only administered to people in a Critical Condition so these are the drugs that we know that President Trump has been administered disappear is an intravenous drug which is administered over a period of time that experimental cocktail i refer to regeneration is something that is is also a say one dose. Drug so were waiting to hear exactly what condition the president is in how he spent the evening all we know so far is the fact that he was up and tweeting so late at night you heard that tweet early on in the bulletin but dr Sean Connelly expected at the podium within the next few minutes. Yeah in my care we can see that brady right now hes incentives you say hes a jew i think the cycle cross about to soon as he does come out and so as donald trump is in the suite of rooms in the hospital behind you theres many many questions about the campaign the Election Campaign now and whether or not hell be able to carry on with all the events that were planned. Well very much so because President Trump has based his campaign on in person rallies in recent weeks you sold a number of rallies a number of them at airports but at least one of them indoors so certainly this is being a very important part of his campaign connecting directly with his followers incidentally some of whom you see behind me here a small group of supporters whove been standing vigil through the night but this has been thrown off the rails the fact that President Trump has coronavirus the issues of questions that are raised as will be able to go and hold these massive meetings again on the other hand the democratic candidate joe biden has largely killed Virtual Meetings now in a way this is given the democrats an edge and this is the way theyve been conducting the campaign so far and this may well be the way that President Trump would be to contact his campaign in future the other issues of course funding all reports indicate that president trips funding is increasingly lower that is one of the reasons why it is believed he held these mass rallies rather than for example buying into Television Advertising as the democrats have done so all kinds of impact on the sElection Campaign on the nature of the campaign how it is actually being run and this is of course critical with weeks away from the november election and these last few weeks of the campaign are absolutely seminal in terms of who is going to be the next president of the United States and here you have. President situation of the sitting president sitting in a hospital just weeks away from that election and it might really be there for the moment but with you as soon as we get an update from the address that weve expecting from dr Sean Connelly the president s physician as you can see nobody there yet to soon as he arrives we will get back to that straight away what mike was talking about some of the treatments being given to the president lets take a closer look at those 1st up rahm does appear is a and i will draw that was previously tested for a bota its not approved by u. S. Drug authorities but is being allowed for patients with severe covert 90 it is the only medicine proven to help people recover more quickly around 4 days on average according to one study but the same data shows it does not reduce fatalities of the other treatment is an experimental antibody combination made by Regeneration Companies says its trials show the cocktail reduces viral load and associated symptoms it too has not been approved but the company can give access for compassionate use which is what has happened in this case and also in clark is an associate professor in microbiology at university of reading and he explains how some of these antiviral drugs. Well as i understand it if they can reject or given reject her or reading this is there now that you 2 quite Different Things were general and as i understand it its an activity which will can be administered to help the immune system block the virus or to mop it up and destroy its rendez if there is actually a viable route that interferes with the virus its life cycle and stops it from reproducing so really its a sort of jewel approach where the doctors are trying to stimulate presidency in system to block and destroy the virus and administer a drug sort of suit growth which should stop it from replicating rendez if it is admits that all the data so far shows that it. Shortens people since i was in the u. K. It east which is where i live people have to be in hospital not so much in the community and it shortened their State Hospital so its given to people as being given the u. K. To people who are well but not at the serious stages of the illness because we dont think it has an effect on them it doesnt save the most seriously ill people it shortens the symptoms all that sort of middle ground of people who need to be in hospital but are not so serious that they need to be intensive care well President Trumps kevin 1000 diagnosis has appended the race for the white house the potential political fallout remains unclear and no polling has yet been done to gauge 20 reactions but there are likely to be radical changes to the remainder of the campaign as rob reynolds reports. With the president hospitalized and facing a period of treatment and quarantine all Trump Campaign events are now on hold its unclear if the next president ial debate scheduled for october 15th will go ahead. Trumps last rally before the diagnosis was in minnesota on wednesday as usual he did not wear a mask and neither did many of his supporters trump had planned rallies in florida wisconsin and arizona over the next several days from Campaign Officials say the president s absence from the campaign trail is not particularly important. In addition to. The british. Troops infection also undercuts one of his central themes in these final days before the election which is that the pandemic is waning even though more than 207000 americans have died from it the end of the pandemic is in sight and next year will be one of the greatest years in the history of our country some voters may wonder if since the president could not keep himself or his wife safe from the pandemic he can keep the country safe from it its definitely ironic to have that im sure that the best thing that her legacy is making fun of joe biden her and again last week he said that kind of it hurts the impacts now line so we dont wish any ill will to the president but its not at all surprising given direction we just hope that this will cause a change in the direction of his leadership and that he will curtail some of the activities like really the Campaign Rallies where essentially being. Open and spreading this is around after testing negative for covert 19 democratic nominee joe biden continued his campaign and flew to michigan he expressed concern for trump and the 1st lady this is not. Politics its a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take those wires seriously bidens events are generally small and strictly adhered to virus control recommendations including mask wearing and distancing in tuesdays debate mocked biden for Wearing Masks and questioned his intelligence because you know what theres nothing smart about now bidens caution seems to be the smarter approach robert oulds al jazeera when its not clear how the president caught the virus but one possibility is last saturdays event in the white house rose garden at least 7 people including 2 republican senators who attended trump Supremes Court nominees terri many have tested positive ad on shoes they trump was in ohio in for the 1st president ial debate with joe biden the president s on including family members they didnt wear masks in the debate moderator has said that trump did not arrive in time to get tested before the event took place on wednesday the president free to an election rally in minnesota with his aide who said she tested positive on thursday and despite that diagnosis from within his in a circle the president then attended a fund raiser at his bed binns the golf club in new jersey and former white House Counsel and Kellyanne Conway and Trumps Campaign manager bill stepien have also tested positive conway was at the rose garden event last saturday or lets be now to talk to daniel lucy whos a professor of Infectious Disease is dr 1st of all what can we read into the experimental drugs that the president has been given what does it tell us about his condition. Were difficult to be certain but the way i interpreted the fact that the president received this 2 entire body cocktail mean by this year u. S. Company quote regenerating yesterday means that the his doctor doctors are very concerned about him that his symptoms. May be progressing and maybe more serious then just. Theyre not specific symptoms that could be a concern they have that theres wrongs are involved hopefully well hear about that from present trends doctor dr shandong here in just a couple of minutes but to me it was a very objective concerning sign that the president received notice to have the body cocktail yesterday we are at the white house before he was flown by helicopter to the north terry hospital dr reid in bethesda maryland yes and as you say we will we will cross to that statement from the president s doctors just as soon as he starts to speak with it in the meantime. So the president was at this ceremony last saturday talking about his Supreme Court nominee and it seems that that could be a super spreader moment as they say to what degree is it going to be difficult to Contact Trace all those not just at that particular event but all the other events so that he subsequently went to in the following week. It will be difficult but it is being done i am confident now as we speak but will be difficult because of the large number of people and the relatively large number of other locations. Where he visited in or other people that now we know are positive for the source of virus to the causes cause of the 1000. As you know there are multiple other people who have tested positive. Who were at the event last saturday 7 days ago at the white house. Its not to say that everyone got infected there we dont know for sure we really dont know who in a sense was the 1st person who spread the virus to others and it could have been more than one person but as you say there are challenges to being able to swiftly and accurately and comprehensively do the Contact Tracing going backwards in a sense but also Going Forward to identify the one who was exposed. So that they dont transmit the virus to other people but also said that if they get sick they can get the best care as fast as possible if the president is up and about fairly quickly given his age and weight. Its a short of a complete recovery because you we do hear about these ongoing effects of covert 90. Yes and some proportion of people who have been 1000 have persistent symptoms where their fever or for tea or not being able to get back to their same level of mental acuity you know ability to think clearly whatever their baseline was before before coping. Theres been a term associated with that now called long haul its a little bit of an odd term i think but the message is that. The infection in the effects of the infection. Can persist for 4 weeks or potentially even longer for months at this point the person im just hoping that he doesnt need to go to intensive care unit doesnt need to be got a breathing machine and he makes a you know recovery physically and cognitively mentally you know as soon as possible and can get out of the hospital absolutely how important is it in your view that the messaging that has been coming out of the white house the messaging from the administration now changes given that the president himself has been infected by kind of at 19. Well its essential really and i hope that the president will change the messaging. Tweet last night he used a 4 letter word in capitals it was l. O. V. E. A lot of which i. Cant recall i dont read all of his thousands and thousands of tweets but i dont recall that being a predominant one of the past so. In all seriousness i do hope that person has that leader of this country where i am. Does change just messaging because as we all know. At least 208000. 11 United States of america have had Laboratory Confirmation on the virus infection and died more than 7300000. People in this country and United States have had Labora