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‘Fundamental disconnect’: Trump treated for severe COVID-19 but doctors say case is mild: Canadian expert

Article content continued Conley was more transparent Sunday, indicating that the president had twice had episodes of falling blood-oxygen levels. Those levels are important because they indicate how much oxygen the lungs are transferring into the blood supply, crucial for keeping the body’s various systems functioning. The first time oxygenation dropped, late Friday morning at… Read More »

Trump isn’t the first sitting U.S. president to contract a potentially deadly virus in middle of a pandemic, so did Woodrow Wilson in 1918

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has tested positive for Covid-19, and he isn’t the first sitting president to contract a highly contagious and potentially deadly virus in the middle of a pandemic. Former President Woodrow Wilson became ill with the 1918 flu when he was in Paris in April of 1919 organizing a peace… Read More »

‘The goal posts keep moving’: Trump administration reportedly plans crackdown on hospitals

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services appears to be planning on cracking down on hospitals that do not report COVID-19 data daily into the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ HHS Protect TeleTracking system, reported NPR this week. A draft letter from the agency would require hospitals to report data, including the number… Read More »

Trump to sign executive order requiring insurers to cover preexisting conditions

President Donald Trump said he would soon be signing an executive order requiring health insurers to cover preexisting conditions. This is something that’s never been done before, Trump said during a press conference Friday at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. “Over the next two weeks I’ll be pursuing a major executive… Read More »

Which pharma advertising did President Trump lambaste on Twitter? Good question

President Donald Trump slammed “Big Pharma” TV ads on Twitter, the morning after pharma executives turned down his White House invite. But the ad that sparked his ire might not be a pharma commercial after all. While the president may have been upset by the pharma executives’ rejection, a TV ad created by the Pharmaceutical Care… Read More »

Trump announces series of executive orders aimed at lowering drug costs

U.S. President Donald Trump is seated prior to signing an executive order regarding social media companies in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 28, 2020. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump announced Friday he will sign four executive orders aimed at lowering the high cost of prescription drugs in the… Read More »