A Doctor's Perspective On President Trump's COVID-19 Experience

Published October 6, 2020 at 11:06 AM CDT

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President Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Oct. 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spent three days hospitalized for coronavirus. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

President Trump is now back at the White House and still contagious with COVID-19 after being treated at the hospital.

Even though the president has been downplaying his condition, medical experts say he should be closely monitored in the coming days because it’s too early to know whether his condition will deteriorate.

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Dr. Rochelle Walensky, chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.