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Former President Donald Trump was sicker from COVID – 19 of what was made public at that time , as published this Thursday The New York Times . The then president had at some point extremely low blood oxygen levels and a lung problem associated with the pneumonia caused by the coronavirus .
Four people who knew of Trump’s health told the New York newspaper that his prognosis became so worrying before he was taken to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center that officials believed they would need to put on a respirator .
Times sources say they discovered that the former president had pulmonary infiltrates, which are detected in an X-ray and that occur when the lungs are inflamed and contain substances such as liquids or bacteria . Its presence, especially when a patient has other symptoms, can be a sign of an acute case of the disease.
The level of Trump’s blood oxygen alone was of extreme concern as it reached the 80 , according to these same people. The disease is considered serious when the oxygen level in the blood falls to 90 degrees.
It was previously reported that Trump had trouble breathing and a fever on October 2, the day he was taken to the hospital and the type of treatment he received indicated that he was in state serious. But new details about his health and about the White House’s effort to give him special access to an unapproved drug in the fight against the virus help complement one of the toughest moments of the Trump presidency.
