I don’t know why this hasn’t been speculated on yet; it seems clear to me, especially after reading today’s WaPo article “Prospect of Trump’s early hospital discharge mystifies doctors”:

Underscoring the concerns is the fact that President Trump may be the first patient — he is certainly among the first — to receive an unusual combination of three strong treatments, with a handful of supplements and an over-the-counter drug sprinkled in.

“He’s gotten kitchen-sink therapy,” said Walensky, of Massachusetts General. She noted that when dexamethasone was tested in clinical trials earlier this year, none of the patients were also given the experimental antibody cocktail Trump is receiving.

Trump is driving his own medical care. And he’s terrified.

Yes, the President is expected to receive spectacularly good care. But what doctor will put a President in a position where there is no data, none, on how good a treatment is? What doctor worth his salt (and they are definitely good docs at Walter Reed I’m sure) would mix three not-yet-approved therapies with God knows what interactions? What doctor will throw in zinc and Pepcid, just because, when the career-will-live-or-die-with-him patient is already in uncharted medical territory and is already more likely to live than die, based on the odds, even with his condition?

Wouldn’t be me. I have two kids and I have no problem telling them “No you can’t have that” if I’m at all scared about what they’ll do with it.

I think Trump has overruled his doctors and has demanded to be given “everything that could possibly help.” I’d guess that the docs are afraid of being canned or at least taken off the case if they demur.

I wonder whose memoir will expose what was happening this time.

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