White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows says a decision about Trump's discharge from Walter Reed will be made later today after a consultation between the President and his doctors. Follow live updates.
President Donald Trump walks to Marine One on October 2, to be taken from the White House to Walter Reed medical center in Bethesda, Maryland. Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg/Getty Images
The President then takes a more thorough PCR test, which also came back positive, according to the official.White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said the President"was doing well with only mild symptoms." In the afternoon, Conley said in a White House letter that Trump received an antibody cocktail — an investigational treatment from the biotechnology company Regeneron — and had taken zinc, vitamin D, the heartburn drug famotidine, melatonin and a daily aspirin.Trump begins a five-day course of theThe President has a second episode of his oxygen level dropping."It dropped down to about 93%," Conley said on Sunday."We watched it and it returned back up.
As of around noon, Trump feels well, Garibaldi said. "He's been up and around. Our plan for today is to have him to eat and drink, be up out of bed as much as possible to be mobile."
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