TRUMP CONFINED AT WALTER REED, TREATED WITH EXPERIMENTAL DRUGS

US President Donald Trump has been confined at the Walter Reed Medical Center after testing positive for COVID-19 and having a fever on Saturday morning (Manila time) his physician said, Kevin Liptak reported for CNN.

Trump will spend “the next few days” in the hospital and the White House said he will be “working” at the medical center even as experts said his infection was worse than that of his wife, Melania.

Dow futures fall more than 400 points after Trump says he tested positive for coronavirus, reported Laura He for CNN Business.

Trump has been administered a dose of experimental Regeneron treatment, according to a memorandum from the President’s physician. Following PCR-confirmation of the President’s diagnosis, as a precautionary measure he received a single 8 gram dose of Regeneron’s polyclonal antibody cocktail. He completed the infusion without incident. In addition to the polyclonal antibodies, the President has been taking zinc, vitamin D, famotidine, melatonin and a daily aspirin.