Donald Trump was so sick after contracting the novel coronavirus last fall that officials thought he would need to be put on a ventilator, new reports suggested Thursday.The reports from the New York Times and CNN suggest Trump’s condition was far more serious than how it was portrayed to the public by White House officials and doctors at the time.
Trump’s ‘don’t be afraid’ message after coronavirus treatment is ‘appalling,’ experts say The Times, which broke the story after speaking with multiple anonymous sources familiar with Trump’s condition, said the then-president had “extremely depressed blood oxygen levels at one point” along with a lung problem associated with pneumonia caused by COVID-19.Trump was found to have lung.