All The President's Meds
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🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Amidst rosy reports about Trump's condition, we also learned that he received multiple drug treatments over the weekend including dexamethasone, which is typically reserved for patients with severe cases of coronavirus. We look at what his diagnosis, along with other positive cases among Senate Republicans, means for the country and the Supreme Court confirmation process.
Following a negative test on Friday, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tested negative again on Sunday. VP Pence and Senator Harris have also tested negative and are planning to move forward with their debate this Wednesday, though their podiums will be moved six feet further apart.
Only three US states are reporting a decline in new Covid-19 cases compared to last week. Wisconsin is having a major outbreak, with new daily case numbers doubling in the past two weeks.
And in headlines: Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron releases audio recordings from Breonna Taylor Grand Jury, continued fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and James Bond kills movie theater chain.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, October 5th. I'm Achilles Hughes. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what a day where we are implanting a news chip to receive |
| 0:12.9 | Trump medical updates at an increasingly rapid rate. Yeah, somehow mine got tuned to like a live |
| 0:18.3 | update on how much fat are the fat bears are getting in fat bear week and I'm not changing it back. |
| 0:22.5 | Yeah, mine stuck on reruns of Johnny Bravo and frankly I'll take it. That's okay. |
| 0:30.0 | Today's show how President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis is affecting, well, everything, then some headlines. |
| 0:41.0 | But first the latest. I was trying to reflect the the upbeat attitude that the |
| 0:46.6 | team, the president that his course of illness has had. I didn't want to give any information |
| 0:54.7 | that might steer the course of illness in another direction. And in doing so, it came off |
| 1:02.4 | that we were trying to hide something, which wasn't necessarily true. And so here I have it. |
| 1:07.2 | He is the effect of the matter is, is that he's doing really well. |
| 1:11.4 | Yeah, it's okay. So that was President Trump's physician, Dr. Conley giving a briefing on Trump's |
| 1:16.4 | health status Sunday morning. In which he tried to explain why he had been evasive and confusing |
| 1:20.8 | in his briefing the day before about whether or not the president had ever been on supplemental |
| 1:24.8 | oxygen on Sunday. Conley admitted that the president did receive supplemental oxygen on Friday. |
| 1:30.0 | We'll get into more on that in a second. But let's zoom out. A ton has developed in the past few |
| 1:35.0 | days since we learned of Trump's diagnosis around 1 a.m. on Friday morning. We're going to try to |
| 1:39.4 | parse through what we know and don't know at this current moment. We are recording at 10 p.m. |
| 1:44.3 | Eastern on Sunday night and we certainly won't get to everything today. But to begin, there have been |
| 1:49.7 | dozens of new positive COVID tests following the ones from President Trump and the First Lady. |
| 1:54.2 | And those include three Republican senators, Trump's campaign manager, the chairwoman of the RNC, |
| 1:59.6 | Chris Christie and Kellyanne Conway. Many of the people who tested positive were at a rose garden |
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