With @noahweiland @MarkMazzettiNYT and @anniekarni, Trump had "infiltrates" on his lungs and officials believed he would need to be put on a ventilator before he went to Walter Reed with covid last fall nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/…
His blood oxygen levels fell significantly. And he was told by aides that he should go to the hospital while he could still walk out instead of being carried out by the USSS if he got sicker nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/…
The effort to obtain Regeneron for Trump and the former first lady began on Oct. 1, with a call from deputy WH counsel Pat Philbin to FDA head Hahn. Philbin did not identify the patients, and Melania Trump turned down the treatment nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/…
Around that time, Jared Kushner offered to help facilitate Regeneron treatments for others around the president who started getting sick. An aide to Kushner disputed he made that offer to two separate people who were unconnected to one another nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/…
When WH doctor Conley was asked about what lung scans had shown, he said only “expected findings” that weren’t of “major clinical concern.” He did not specify the infiltrates the scans showed.
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