TRUMP GOT COVID

BREAKING: Trump, who revealed early this morning he has coronavirus, is leaving the White House for Walter Reed Military Medical Center.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 2, 2020

Ok.

The biotechnology company Regeneron released a report earlier this week on its experimental coronavirus antibody cocktail, which the president is now taking to treat his symptoms.

CNN reports:

Regeneron released some early results of tests using its antibody cocktail in coronavirus patients Tuesday, and said it seemed to reduce levels of the virus and improve symptoms in patients.

The greatest improvements were seen in patients who hadn’t already mounted a natural response to the infection, the company said. ...

The treatment also showed positive trends at reducing medical visits for the patients, none of whom were sick enough to be hospitalized at the start of the trial, the company said.

It’s important to note the results only involved 275 patients, and the Regeneron data has not yet been peer-reviewed.

It's happening.

xpost Biden is a challenger for president not an incumbent in an incredibly blue district might have something to do with it

who fucking cares? why should the campaign risk anything for a meaningless tweet? Omar's statement doesn't do anything more than his did

of course telling the truth and standing for something matters

Is this a “Christ he is really bad try anything” deal

Consider. Once the virus has multiplied to the point of symptoms emerging the course of the disease is entirely a fight between the body's immune response and the virus' ability to spread into new host cells. All current treatments are simply attempts to ease the symptoms long enough for the patient's immune response to prevail. Trump is far enough advanced to show symptoms and he's very clearly a high risk individual, meaning his immune response can't be relied on to win that battle.

The monoclonal antibody treatment is still experimental, but it is the best available treatment that can directly boost immune response. They are jumping on it now because it is a binary yes-no decision and there is no virtue in waiting. The virus is already established and the sooner you act, the better the chance for the treatment to work.

You definitely don't care but I see Omar's statement as far more than fucking thoughts and prayers. It only doesn't matter because so little seems too xxp

you absolutely love to see it

It is what it is.

Ilhan lost her dad to Covid less than three months ago, she can say whatever the fuck she wants about this pandemic, including calling out 45 for everything he’s (not) done.

of course she can, I think it was a good statement

I just think it would have been dumb for Biden to do it

Trump taken to hospital after testing positive https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54396670

It's the Hope that kills you

Pass the Sudocrem, that burrrrrrrrns.

It's the Hope (Hicks) that kills you

#sorrynotsorry

Ilhan lost her dad to Covid less than three months ago, she can say whatever the fuck she wants about this pandemic, including calling out 45 for everything he’s (not) done.

― santa clause four (suzy), Friday, October 2, 2020 5:34 PM (fifteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

its what every democrat would be doing if they werent specifically chosen for their incompetence

in that bbc.co.uk story: the White House said, and was feeling "fatigued but in good spirits". yet I just watched Meadows in a statement to press, recorded earlier today, saying Trump was "very energetic". typical. can't both be true, so we are being lied to again.

Trump has had a long distaste for hospitals, and a distrust of medical treatments. Some of his closest allies note Trump wouldn’t allow himself to be hospitalized unless he absolutely had to.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 2, 2020

lol that asshole is literally never in good spirits these people can choke on it xp

I’m already tempering my expectations but I’d be happy enough if this experimental cocktail had some funny side effects, like he recovers in 2 weeks but has to come out for the election with his lips all puffed up or something

If you need me I’ll be at my hospital office

— rob delaney (@robdelaney) October 2, 2020

Per source, Trump insisted on walking to Marine One. For the visual.

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) October 2, 2020

https://ibb.co/3mR3WxT

https://i.ibb.co/TMWfRQw/pt.jpg

Trump, in March, saying people should go to work with COVID-19:

Here is the President of the United States telling the country it's okay to go to work with Coronavirus.

I'm not kidding. pic.twitter.com/Tz4kKbyear

— Matt Rogers 🎃 🗳 (@Politidope) March 5, 2020

Welp, he took his own advice! Not a bad thing to start retweeting tbh.

Hope Hicks Exhausted After Another Day Packed Full Of Meetings https://t.co/xpJDhH1mkO pic.twitter.com/fXgzBJddZp

— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 2, 2020

Real Boris vibes out of this handling. From “it’s just a precaution” to “he’s in good spirits” to “who is this fucking wreck we see before us?” and then it being revealed he was in a pretty bad way when they were talking him up.

Please don't invoke Johnson's tragic recovery

Bloomberg reporting that the President is using the motorcade route through Dallas that i suggested.. Good.

— Jonathan (@readonlymike) October 2, 2020

(URGENT) N.K. leader wishes Trump quick recovery from COVID-19 https://t.co/jgkwFNLxY1

— Yonhap News Agency (@YonhapNews) October 2, 2020

I just had a flash of what it would look like for Trump to die while in office: the lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda, the Marine honor guard (none wearing masks, ofc), the horse-drawn caisson, all the solemn twaddle from media talking heads about a nation in shock and deep mourning.

The ritual pomp and dishonest eulogizing will be next to unendurable, but at least there would be other compensations.

was thinking the same, it would be miserable

Watching Obama keep a straight face through the funeral would be amusing.

zoom funeral

Carter would be all "I'll outlive all of you yet."

Saw it reported that he was walked very slowly to his helicopter. Also saw posted that the White House apparently has its own excellent medical facilities, so the only reason to move to a proper hospital would be one of true concern.

Who are we betting on to write the definitive vicious eulogy on him, HL Mencken/ Hunter Thompson style?

I am sure the Trevor Noah / John Oliver / Samantha Bee types already have pretty advanced drafts

david roth

Never a clearer demonstration of American decline than HST on Nixon to the prospect of Samantha Bee on Trump.

pic.twitter.com/B4H105KVSs

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020

Oh it's an xpost, sorry.

Shook Ones, Pt. 3

Saw it reported that he was walked very slowly to his helicopter. Also saw posted that the White House apparently has its own excellent medical facilities, so the only reason to move to a proper hospital would be one of true concern.

The President walks to Marine One: pic.twitter.com/g5YclKNZXd

— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 2, 2020

it was a normal walk. he walks faster than i do.

https://i.redd.it/tz7uczwb4qq51.jpg

Yes, there is a medical facility in the White House on a level with some hospitals.

Yeah, video of walk seems pretty normal.

heard a radio interview with the head of Mayo Clinic laboratories, kind of a bummer.

so basically he says (totally paraphrasing here based on hearing this in the car so could have details off) that the experimental treatment, basically taking plasma from people who have had it and injecting it) is pretty promising, they've administered to about 250 ppl

no negative effects so far, is based on immunotherapy they do for cancer....got the gist he thinks it's on its way to getting approved

also said that they have been finding that early intervention is reducing mortality across the board

wouldn't speculate why he went to hospital but did suggest it might be an abundance of caution if he were the one in charge

Never a clearer demonstration of American decline than HST on Nixon to the prospect of Samantha Bee on Trump.

Roth's clear-eyed awareness of the deep banality of Trump > HST-style performative spleen

Exciting, but definitely some big supply chain issues.

This would be the same game-changing treatment he was boosting after returning to press conferences for a day or two after the long break. He kept calling it “plahs-muh.”