President Trump said he feels fine less than a week after testing positive for coronavirus and after spending the weekend hospitalized.
He went as far as saying he hasn’t felt this good in decades.
Hennepin County Medical Center’s Dr. David Hilden, long-time host of “Healthy Matters” on WCCO, said he’s heard all that before.
“We call it happy hypoxia,” Dr. Hilden told Dave Lee on the WCCO Morning News. “Hypoxia means low oxygen. You look too good, in fact they sort of wonder what’s the big deal.”
In most of those cases, the patient gets better.
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A few times, though, a rough spot is just ahead.
“For those who get worse, days 7-10 are sort of one of the worrying points,” said Hilden.
Trump announced his diagnosis less than a week ago.
“I wish him the best, but he is not out of the woods yet,” Hilden said, echoing other physicians.
Those who take a turn for the worse start getting sick real fast.
“Sometimes in the course of a day I’ll see a patient before breakfast,” he said. “By dinner time, they’re in an ICU on a ventilator. Fortunately for Mr. Trump, that doesn’t happen to most people.”
Dr. Hilden also points out that some of the medications given to the president wouldn’t be administered early on for most COVID-19 patients, suggesting low oxygen levels.