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Trump Administration 'Optimistic' President Could be Discharged from Hospital
Late Monday

Steve Herman

   WHITE HOUSE - White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows says President
   Donald Trump is meeting with doctors treating him for COVID-19 Monday
   to assess his progress and the administration is "optimistic" he could
   be discharged from the hospital later in the day.

   "Spoke to the President this morning. He continued to improve over
   night and is ready to get back to a normal working schedule," Meadows
   told Fox News. "We are still optimistic that he will be able to return
   to the White House later today."

   On Sunday, after tweeting a video that he is "getting great reports"
   from his doctors, Trump promised a little surprise for his supporters
   outside the hospital where he is being treated.

     [1]pic.twitter.com/0Bm9W2u1x7
     -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [2]October 4, 2020

   The president then briefly left Walter Reed National Military Medical
   Center in an armored SUV with Secret Service agents in tow to drive by
   a flag-waving, cheering crowd outside the hospital.

   "President Trump took a short, last-minute motorcade ride to wave to
   his supporters outside and has now returned to the Presidential Suite
   inside Walter Reed," White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a
   statement.

   Earlier Sunday, the doctors treating the president revealed that their
   patient experienced "two episodes of transient drops in his oxygen
   saturation."

   Despite that, "The fact of the matter is, he is doing really well," the
   president's primary physician, Dr. Sean Conley, told reporters.
   COVID-19 is the disease caused by the coronavirus.

   A team led by Conley was more transparent during Sunday's news briefing
   than the previous day, when their appearance before a pool of White
   House reporters seemed to raise as many questions as it answered.

References

   1. https://t.co/0Bm9W2u1x7
   2. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1312864232711520257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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