It's possible that over the weekend, some people may have noticed a news item or two indicating that President Trump had checked into Walter Reed hospital where he was treated for COVID-19. It's okay if you missed it. But it's something that people were talking about.
Anyway one of the things that got some attention was the President's treatment regime. He tweeted this afternoon that it involved some "really great drugs and knowledge." Unfortunately the information coming from his doctors is not exactly clear. But, as far as we know, here is some of what that might have entailed.
Trump got one dose of Regeneron's monoclonal antibody cocktail -- a combination of two lab-engineered proteins designed to home in on the coronavirus. He also had received the first infusion of a five-day course of remdesivir, Gilead Science's experimental antiviral drug.
Conley indicated the Walter Reed team was giving Trump a variety of therapies -- an approach many doctors are taking in treating coronavirus patients, who suffer a wide range of symptoms.
"Remdesivir works a little bit differently than the antibodies. We are maximizing all aspects of his care. Attacking this virus in a multipronged approach," Conley said.
"If there was any possibility that it would add value to his care and expedite his care, I wanted to take it."
It's not surprising, said Dr. Seema Yasmin, director of research and education at Stanford University's Health Communication Initiative.
"This is the President of the United States -- he is going to have the kitchen sink thrown at him," Yasmin told CNN.
Multipronged, kitchen sink approach involving all these cutting edge treatments. We really can do remarkable things in health care here in the good ol US of A. It's sure great to the be the President of this country.
It's less great to be in jail in Orleans Parish, though. They treat the COVID differently there, apparently.
And Dixon wasn’t the only one who felt the effects of the pepper spray. It dispersed throughout the rest of the tier, which at the time was housing around a dozen other detainees who had tested positive for coronavirus.
“Yeah it got into our cells,” said the detainee. “All of us were all beating on the doors telling the people we can’t breathe, to open the outside door where they have a rec yard so it can air out. We were telling them we can’t breathe, they were telling us we can’t go outside and air out.”
“By inhaling that stuff, it’s so strong,” he said. “We tested positive for the corona, and it was getting in our system. We were coughing and gagging in our cells.”
Following the incident, according to Dixon and the other inmate, Dixon was returned to his cell on the COVID tier and kept there for several days without being given the opportunity to shower or make any phone calls.
“They put me in the cell with no shower, nothing to clean it off me,” Dixon said.
The only medical attention he received, Dixon said, was being given Tylenol to help with his wrist and ankles, which had become swollen from the cuffs and shackles.
Nowhere to wash off the pepper spray... not even a kitchen sink.
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