tweets. on tuesday morning, politico hosts a virtual discussion on the 2020 election. expected topics include mail-in voting, ballot access concerns for minority voters, and democratic priorities for the next congress. watch live starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2, online at c-span.org, or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> earlier today, vice president mike pence spoke to reporters before boarding errors -- air force two. he was joined by his wife and talked about how president trump is preparing to return to the white house from walter reed medical center, after being there for three days following his positive covid test. here's a look.

>> good afternoon, everyone. aspoke to the president little while back and he sounded great. as the american people learned a little while ago, president trump is going home tonight.

utah for the to vice presidential debate. wanted toi just express our profound gratitude, first to the incredible medical staff at walter reed hospital , to thehe white house care and concern they have shown for this president and our first family at all of those impacting the white house staff. let me also take this opportunity to say how grateful we are to the expressions of concern and support, and the prayers of millions of americans. remembering our president and first lady, and we believe it is emblematic of the love and care and compassion of the american people, and showing all those who have been impacted from the very beginning of this pandemic. when the president told me that

he was headed back to the white house, he told me to head to muchand we are very looking forward to the vice presidential debate. the choice has never been clearer. i look forward to the case toity to take our the american people for four more years for president donald trump in the white house. thank you all very much.

>> we go live to walter reed medical center where president trump is leaving for the white house after spending three days in the hospital following his positive covid-19 test. >> [screaming] god bless the president. god bless the president.

>> mr. president, how many staff are sick? how many of your staff are sick? do you think you might be a

super spreader, mr. president?

>>[chanting] four more years. four more years. four more years. we love you. [cheering]

[chanting] usa. usa.

>> four more years. four more years.

>> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for being here. of the past 24 hours, the president has continued to improve. he has met or exceeded all standard hospital discharge criteria. he will receive another dose of remdesivir today, and then he will be home. it has been more than 72 hours since his last fever. oxygen levels including ambulatory saturation and

breathing are all normal. though he may not be entirely out of the woods yet, the team and i agree all of our evaluations, and most important he, his clinical status, support the president's safe return home or he will be surrounded by 24/7.class medical care i would like to bring dr. dooley up to bring up more specifics. good afternoon. a brief update this morning. as dr. conley mentioned, the president continues to do very well. his vital signs this morning were notable for a temperature of 98.1, blood pressure was 134 over 78. his heart rate was 68 beats permitted -- per minute. he currently does not endorse any respiratory complaints. aside from our evaluation with the multidisciplinary team this morning, has maintained a full

schedule working on the white unit.medical i will turn over to dr. garibaldi to discuss therapeutics. good afternoon and i want to echo the sentiment of what an honor it is to be part of this wonderful team out walter reed. yesterday, the president received his third dose of remdesivir, and he tolerated that without difficulty and kidney functions are normal. our plan is to give him the third dose of remdesivir before he goes back to the white house. we made arrangements to deliver the fifth and final dose of his treatment at the white house tomorrow. he continues on dexamethasone. his plan for today is to get up and out of bed and eat and drink as he is able. i would like to turn it over to dr. jason blalock, infection disease specialist to give an update. thank you. >> good afternoon.

first of all, i want to say what an honor it has been to be part of this medical team behind me in the care for the president. since the president's arrival at walter reed, he has received medical management that remains in line with national clinical societal guidelines for treatment of covid-19 infections. and dr.ion, my self west campbell have worked closely with various laboratories in the area, state-of-the-art facilities to obtaining advanced diagnostic testing to inform the white house medical team on both the status of the president as well as his ability to transmit virus to others. also, we have worked very closely with the walter reed team to ensure that we are looking very closely at infection control prevention strategies and the right posture so the president can safely return to his residence. it overt, i will turn

to dr. conley, who will answer any final questions. >> thank you. i mentioned it saturday but i would like to reiterate myself how grateful the president and i are to the men and women at walter reed, our colleagues at johns hopkins, and the many federal and private institutions receivevers -- really support from. as long as everything continues on the track we are on right now, as the president already tweeted out, we will get him home later today. with that, i will. take a couple questions. >> you said that he is still on steroids and other medicines that are usually given to covid patients who are on ventilators or with low oxygen. so did you over treat him? if he is still on that medication, how is it safe for him to return to the white house? >> we send patients home with medications all the time. yesterday afternoon, he probably

met most of his discharge hospital.ts from the he's returning to a facility at the white house medical unit staffed 2024/7, top notch, physicians, nurses, logisticians. the team behind me will continue to support and that nature. >> what other infection control measures are you taking?

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