Cutting-Edge COVID-19 Care For Trump, Not Available For Regular Folks

TOPSHOT – White House physician Sean Conley (2nd R), with medical staff, arrives to give an update on the condition of US President Donald Trump, on October 3, 2020, at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. – Trump is “doing very well” and is up and moving about as he undergoes treatment for Covid-19 … Continued

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Like hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been hospitalized with the coronavirus, President Trump is recovering at home after being discharged. Unlike most Americans, his home is equipped with a medical unit, where he will receive around-the-clock medical care from a team of physicians and nurses.

And the differences between his treatment and many people’s don’t stop there. The President has received cutting-edge care and VIP treatment since his diagnosis with COVID-19 last week, including a combination of treatments that would not have been available to most Americans early in the progression of the illness.

“The President received experimental therapies that no one has access to,” says Leana Wen, an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University. “As far as we know, the President is the only person in the world to have received this combination of treatments,” she says.