Donald Trump’s condition has been “very concerning” over the last 24 hours, said reports

Washington:

US President Donald Trump’s condition has been “very concerning” over the last 24 hours, a source familiar with his health said Saturday, adding that the coming 48 hours would be critical.

“The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery,” the source said.

The White House has not commented on the assessment.

The assessment is at odds with the more optimistic picture presented by Trump’s medical team, who said he was breathing well without oxygen and improving.

In the first official update on the US president’s condition since he was admitted Friday to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, medics were upbeat about his progress.

“At this time, the team and I are extremely happy with the progress the president has made,” White House physician Sean Conley said, adding that the president had been “fever-free for over 24 hours.”

“We have monitored his cardiac function, his kidney function, liver function. All of those are normal,” Sean Dooley, another member of Trump’s medical team, added.

Conley sidestepped journalists’ questions about whether Trump had received oxygen treatment at any point before revealing that the president was not on oxygen on Thursday or at any point since he arrived at Walter Reed.

He said Trump was “just 72 hours into the diagnosis now” — implying that he was known to be sick a day before his test result was announced.

But the White House later clarified that Conley meant to say Saturday was the third day since the president’s positive test result late Thursday.

Soon after Trump arrived at Walter Reed, Conley said in a memo that the president was starting a course of therapeutic drug remdesivir and had received an eight-gram dose of an experimental polyclonal antibody cocktail.

Conley would not put a “hard date” on Trump’s discharge from the hospital or disclose the president’s temperature.