Trump’s Covid-19 case prompts questions, financial services in a post-Brexit world
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump’s doctors said the president could be discharged from hospital today, after a weekend of mixed messages from the White House concerning Mr Trump’s health. Plus, the FT’s Brexit editor, David Bond, talks with the FT trading room editor Philip Stafford about what financial services will look like after Brexit.
Trump’s doctor says he could be out of hospital on Monday
https://www.ft.com/content/f331c9b9-6f2b-4cd5-831c-00cc10929940
Brexit and the City: Brussels’ new battle to rival London in finance
https://www.ft.com/content/dd7e6828-f603-47bf-bdd7-61e9dcb5f9ac
Brussels’ next financial policy chief warns of Brexit frictions
https://www.ft.com/content/d80ccc42-9156-4f9f-a103-6a8faa33014b
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:02.0 | Today is Monday, October 5th, |
| 0:04.0 | and this is your FT news briefing. |
| 0:08.0 | Doctors say Donald Trump's condition is improving |
| 0:11.0 | after being hospitalized with COVID-19. But it's not clear if the |
| 0:14.8 | U.S. President is out of the woods quite yet. Plus, what will the EU's financial services |
| 0:19.9 | look like after the UK leaves the block. Our Brexit team discusses the uncertain |
| 0:24.5 | future for the region's banks. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to |
| 0:29.4 | start your day. Donald Trump could be discharged from the Walter Reed Medical Center as soon as |
| 0:36.2 | Monday after testing positive for COVID-19 last week. |
| 0:40.1 | But there are still many questions about the President's health, his ability to lead the country, and his campaign in the final stretch of the 2020 presidential election. |
| 0:48.2 | I spoke with our Washington Bureau Chief Dimitri Sevestapulow about the president, and just keep in mind that things could have changed since we recorded this segment on Sunday, October 4th. |
| 0:58.0 | Dimitri, what did we learn about the President's condition over the weekend? |
| 1:02.0 | Well, it's been really surreal. |
| 1:05.0 | We were told on Friday that he was hospitalized as a precaution |
| 1:09.0 | and that he only had mild symptoms. |
| 1:11.0 | It turns out that he had a high fever on Friday morning. His oxygen levels fell to a |
| 1:16.0 | dangerous level and he was actually put on supplemental oxygen. Over the weekend the fever apparently |
| 1:21.9 | has gone. |
| 1:23.2 | He's had one more bout of oxygen levels falling. |
| 1:26.1 | He's now been put on an anti-inflammatory steroid |
| 1:29.2 | to help him breathe, and he is on two experimental drugs to help him recover from COVID. |
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