President Trump’s medical team will decide late Monday if he will be discharged from the hospital, according to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Meadows said the president’s health improved overnight following his coronavirus diagnosis and that an announcement will be made about whether he will be discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday afternoon at the earliest.
“His health continues to improve. The doctors will actually have an evaluation sometime late morning. And then the president, in consultation with the doctors, will make a decision on whether to discharge him by later today,” Meadows told Fox & Friends. “We’re still optimistic that based on his unbelievable progress and how strong he’s been in terms of his fight against this COVID-19 disease, that he will be released. But that decision won’t be made until later today.”
Meadows also addressed rumors that Trump was “furious” with him after he released a quote to the White House press pool, which was initially anonymous and then made on the record, saying that the president’s health was “very concerning” on Friday.
“I don’t know where anybody is getting the ‘furious’ part. The president and I have been together for the last 72 hours or more,” Meadows said. “I don’t use the word fake news as much, but I can tell you that’s not coming from Walter Reed or anything here.”
Meadows said it was important to be clear about the president’s condition over the weekend and doubled down on there being “real concern” that warranted his admission to the hospital.
During a press conference late Sunday morning at Walter Reed, Dr. Sean Conley, the president’s physician, confirmed that Trump was given supplemental oxygen on Friday out of concern of “possible rapid progression of the illness,” which the president was against. Conley said the president had a “high fever” and that his oxygen saturation was dipping below 94%.
“Today, he feels well. He’s been up and around. Our plan for today is to have him to eat and drink, be up out of bed as much as possible, to be mobile. And if he continues to look and feel as well as he does today, our hope is that we can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow to the White House, where he can continue his treatment course,” Dr. Brian Garibaldi said.
As of late Sunday morning, Conley said the president’s oxygen level remained at 98% and that he did not have difficulty breathing.
