Head of Oval Office Operations Nicholas Luna contracts coronavirus after contact with Hope Hicks.

Luna's 'body man' responsibilities range from handling Trump's papers and speech texts to being ready with everything the president may need from briefing books to pens for autographs.

National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien has said Trump will stay in hospital "for a period of time".

O'Brien told CBS News that Trump "actually wants to get back to the White House and get back to work, but I think he's going to stay a Walter Reed [Medical Center] for at least another period of time".

He added that days seven and eight are "the critical days" for someone with Covid-19, and that "the doctors want to make sure that they're there for the president and he's getting the best treatment and he's doing well".

The president’s medical team has said that Donald Trump had two episodes of blood oxygen drops, one of which required two litres of supplemental oxygen, and has completed his second dose of Remdesivir.

The briefing with Trump's medical team is now over. Here's what we've learned:

• Trump is being treated with dexamethasone*, a steroid that's given to patients with severe or critical Covid-19, in order to help their lung function
• Despite this, Dr Sean Conley says the team was planning for Trump to potentially be discharged from Walter Reed Medical Center as early as Monday, to continue his course of treatment at the White House
• The president has had two dips in his oxygen saturation level since Thursday - one episode where it fell below 94% and another where it was below 93%
• Dr Conley recommended the president be given supplemental oxygen. Although Trump was adamant that he didn't need it ,he was given oxygen
  

* What is dexamethasone?

Dexamethasone is a steroid - a medicine that reduces inflammation by mimicking anti-inflammatory hormones produced by the body.

Coronavirus infection triggers inflammation as the body tries to fight it off.

But sometimes the immune system goes into overdrive and it's this reaction that can prove fatal - the very reaction designed to attack infection ends up attacking the body's own cells.

Dexamethasone calms this effect.

It's only suitable for people who are already in hospital and receiving oxygen or mechanical ventilation - the most unwell.

US President Donald Trump has surprised supporters gathered outside the hospital where he is being treated with Covid-19 by riding past in a motorcade. Wearing a mask, the president waved inside a car moments after tweeting that he would pay a "surprise visit".

In the tweet, the president said: "I learned a lot about Covid. I learned it by really going to school. This is the real school. This isn't the let's read the books school. I get it and I understand it. It's a very interesting thing (sic), I'll be letting you know about it."

In the midst of an aggressive course of treatment for coronavirus, President Donald Trump left the hospital with his security detail Sunday so he could ride in an SUV past supporters cheering him on outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

The short trip, where Trump waved to his supporters through the window while wearing a mask in the back of his SUV, was an attempted show of strength that displayed the President's questionable judgment, his willingness to endanger his staff and the fact that he still does not seem to comprehend the seriousness of a highly contagious and deadly disease.

An attending physician at Walter Reed harshly criticized Trump's movement as a risk to the lives of Secret Service agents who accompanied him in his SUV.

"Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential 'drive-by' just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity," Dr. James Phillips tweeted.

Trump briefly leaves hospital to greet supporters

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54413536



Trump's photo op raises new questions about how seriously he takes the virus

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/04/p...ity/index.html


Insanity, indeed .....

Vote for a clown - expect a circus!

Could be a body double in that car under the mask.