Monday, October 5, 2020

Look at it this way...

...with all the medical care President Trump received over the past three days, instead of claiming he was given preferential treatment and an experimental cocktail unavailable to the common man. Maybe we can spin it that Trump volunteered to be administered these new & untested drugs. He submitted to the treatments to serve as a lab monkey for the benefit of research & to aid in the defeat of the virus for America & the World!

(you think that'll work?)

As President Trump made his way back to the White House Monday evening, the broadcast networks couldn’t hide how they wanted his weekend hospitalization at Walter Reed Medical Center to be his death bed. It was made obvious because all three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were openly complaining about Trump receiving “the very best care in the world” that was “not available to most Americans.”

Chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson huffed about how, “President Trump will have a home experience unlike any other American, with access to 24/7 care, that medical suite at the residence.”

They even did a full report questioning the level of the President’s medical treatment, with anchor Lester Holt proclaiming: “many leading doctors say President Trump's treatments are raising questions, in their minds, as some of the drugs are meant for the sickest patients.”

“Tonight, even the President's own doctors concede they have taken a fast track approach in treating the President involving some higher-risk medications,” announced correspondent Tom Costello. He even targeted the prescription of an experimental antibody cocktail made by Regeneron:

At Walter Reed on Friday, the President was given the highest dose of an experimental antibody cocktail designed to kick start the body's defenses. So far, there are only results on 275 trial patients. Mr. Trump received that antibody treatment under a compassionate use agreement with the company.

The accusation of special treatment forced the co-founder/president/chief scientific officer of Regeneron, Dr. George Yancopoulos to defend his company’s aid to the president of the United States. “I can assure you that there was nothing to the notion that any special relationships or anything like this. We’ve reached out, certainly, to the Biden team to offer our antibody cocktail to them,” he told NBC.

CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell was persistent with her complaints. After chiding the President for telling people not to be afraid of the virus with a survival rate between 94.6-99.997 percent (age depending), O’Donnell added: “It is also worth noting that President Trump has been receiving and will continue to receive the very best care in the world at Walter Reed, including an experimental drug therapy that is not available to most Americans.”

About 18 minutes later, O’Donnell continued to try to use the benefits of the presidential position as a wedge issue against Trump to mark elitism (Click “expand”):

O’DONNELL: One other quick question I want to ask you Dr. LaPook, is about the treatment that the President is receiving. Is he on dexamethasone, a steroid, which you pointed out, is a very strong steroid. He has also had an early dose of Regeneron, an antiviral-- a monoclonal antibody. And then he is receiving a five-day course of Remdesivir. Which has received an emergency use authorization by the FDA. It is not widely available to most to the public but can be requested, of the Remdesivir. We were told he would get his fourth dose before leaving Walter Reed. It is administered intravenously and that he will get his fifth dose tomorrow at the White House.
I had heard, you know, some concern by non-doctors speculating that they wouldn't be able to give him that at home. But he can receive excellent medical care at the White House.

Meanwhile, ABC’s World News Tonight repeatedly hounded on Trump’s comments, suggesting he only survived because of the special treatments. “It drew outrage from many immediately, who pointed out this country hit 210,000 lives lost today, and that the doctor and the President received the best health care in the world, those experimental treatments,” sneered anchor David Muir.

There was similar animosity from chief White House correspondent and anti-Trump book author Jon Karl:

After receiving some of the most advanced medical care in the world for three nights, including experimental treatments usually reserved for the most serious COVID cases, President Trump tweeted today that he is heading back to the White House, telling Americans, "Don't be afraid of COVID. Don't let it dominate your life." He added, "I feel better than I did 20 years ago!"

While he did acknowledge that Trump “is the president,” Muir went back to decrying Trump’s comments and huffing how he said that after “likely received the best health care in the world, those two experimental drugs, likely much more quickly than the average American would…”