Quick take on @WalterReedArmy medical update:
a) Answer on oxygen was strangely evasive; hard to interpret it as anything other than that he DID need oxygen previously.
b) Asked about Covid testing history: "I'm not going to go into testing going back" – also evasive, why? (1/3)
c/ Was very definitive re: Trump never having been short of breath; only cough, fever. Conflicts w/ other reports; reassuring if true.
d/ Now "72 hrs" into illness & "Thurs afternoon is when we repeated testing & got PCR confirmation." So rapid test prob was + earlier–?when (2/3)
Bottom Line:
1) Trump seems stable now – off oxygen, walking around. Good, but definitely not out of the woods
2) Events of Wed/Thurs (Covid tests, O2 need) even more unclear but likely dxed earlier
3) Evasive answers won't engender trust re: credible info going forward. (3/3)
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