[BostonCard]

I wonder if he will request/demand hydroxychloroquine.   

How much of his (projected?) personal beliefs will override his medical staff?

Any POTUS health issue is rather serious, so I hope all is OK.
The nation needs two healthy political candidates on election day, and anything less will create massive chaos that is hard to joke about.
And given the timeline here it is not even clear either Presidential candidate is free of COVID19 given how many people were in the debate hall just a few days ago.

Sadly, given this POTUS hates negative scenario planning it is hard to believe there is a robust plan for what to do if POTUS45 is contagious.

I am VERY confident that he will insist the very best medical efforts are implemented even if those run counter to his own talking points.   

However, the reality is he can't bully COVID.   He can't cyber-bully COVID.   
He is an old, overweight man with a number of other comorbidities. 
COVID doesn't care if he is a billionaire or soon-to-be bankrupt.
Odds are decent he will be OK, but it is not an insignificant risk.

The VP debate next week takes on a very different perspective now.

In his favor, are the fact that he was diagnosed very early (before becoming symptomatic) and he has the entire approved and investigational arsenal at his physicians' disposal.  That means he can get remdisivir, and possibly monoclonal antibodies, now, which should have a maximum benefit.  Indeed, he may have started receiving it prophylactically as soon as Hicks tested positive.

I assume Pence is also at risk.  Not to be morbid, but he needs to be isolated, protected, and tested, as does Nancy Pelosi, who would be third in line.  You hope for the best, but absolutely have to prepare for the worst.

Biden shared a stage with Trump for 90 minutes, unmasked, indoors just two days ago.  I presume that preparations for that debate included ventilation, and they were certainly >6 ft apart.

Apropos nothing, stock market futures took a dive.

BC

[BostonCard]

I wonder if he will request/demand hydroxychloroquine.   

How much of his (projected?) personal beliefs will override his medical staff?

Any POTUS health issue is rather serious, so I hope all is OK.
The nation needs two healthy political candidates on election day, and anything less will create massive chaos that is hard to joke about.
And given the timeline here it is not even clear either Presidential candidate is free of COVID19 given how many people were in the debate hall just a few days ago.

Sadly, given this POTUS hates negative scenario planning it is hard to believe there is a robust plan for what to do if POTUS45 is contagious.

I am VERY confident that he will insist the very best medical efforts are implemented even if those run counter to his own talking points.   

However, the reality is he can't bully COVID.   He can't cyber-bully COVID.   
He is an old, overweight man with a number of other comorbidities. 
COVID doesn't care if he is a billionaire or soon-to-be bankrupt.
Odds are decent he will be OK, but it is not an insignificant risk.

The VP debate next week takes on a very different perspective now.

In his favor, are the fact that he was diagnosed very early (before becoming symptomatic) and he has the entire approved and investigational arsenal at his physicians' disposal.  That means he can get remdisivir, and possibly monoclonal antibodies, now, which should have a maximum benefit.  Indeed, he may have started receiving it prophylactically as soon as Hicks tested positive.

I assume Pence is also at risk.  Not to be morbid, but he needs to be isolated, protected, and tested, as does Nancy Pelosi, who would be third in line.  You hope for the best, but absolutely have to prepare for the worst.

Biden shared a stage with Trump for 90 minutes, unmasked, indoors just two days ago.  I presume that preparations for that debate included ventilation, and they were certainly >6 ft apart.

Apropos nothing, stock market futures took a dive.

BC