what we know so far

- The White House medical team has affirmed that Donald Trump "has continued to improve" since Saturday and could leave the hospital this Monday. The team has confirmed that the president's oxygen levels had dropped at a certain point and declined to answer questions about whether the president has suffered lung damage.

- Sunday afternoon, Trump made a spontaneous appearance outside the hospital to greet a group of followers gathered at the doors of the medical center from inside a vehicle. Several doctors expressed concern about the other people who were in the armored car with the president, who was wearing a mask.

- A doctor at Walter Reed Medical Center, where the president is admitted, condemned Trump's walk, calling it "madness." James Phillips, full-time emergency room physician at Walter Reed, wrote on Twitter: "Every person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential ride now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They could become ill and could die from the political theater. Forced by Trump to put their lives in danger for the theater. This is crazy. " In a second tweet, Phillips added: "The irresponsibility is staggering."

Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential “drive-by” just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity.

- Dr. James P. Phillips, MD (@DrPhillipsMD) October 4, 2020

- Trump does not have any public events on the White House agenda for this Monday. "The president does not have public events scheduled," the official document says.

- NBC has reported Melania Trump will not leave her residence to visit her husband because it would endanger the agents and staff. A member of the White House has indicated to the chain that Melania will not leave the White House because "that would expose the agents who took her there and the medical personnel who accompanied her to him."

- A Reuters / Ipsos poll indicates that the majority of Americans (65%) believe that Trump would not have caught it if he had taken the virus more seriously. Another poll shows Joe Biden's biggest lead over Trump in a month. The poll, taken on Friday and Saturday, gives Biden a 10-point lead.

- Joe Biden tests negative again. Biden's second test since it became public that Donald Trump had contracted COVID-19 was negative. The Democrat's campaign said Sunday night that it would release the results of all coronavirus tests it undergoes in the future.

- He The Wall Street Journal Reports That Trump Tested Positive For COVID-19 On Thursday And Did Not Reveal It. Trump told Fox News that night that he was waiting for the test results and later tweeted that he had the virus.

–New Jersey state sanitarians have contacted more than 200 people who attended a fundraising event for the president's campaign held at the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster. The event took place on Thursday, hours before the president announced that he had COVID-19. Meanwhile, Somerset County workers are trying to contact the people who worked at the event, most of whom live in the county.

- The Government refuses to disclose the number of infected White House workers. Asked by journalists, Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, refused to commit to making this figure public.

- A Washington Post information argues that Sean Conley, the White House physician, told his co-workers in the spring that he was experiencing intense personal stress at his current job, before the president contracted COVID-19. Conley, a 40-year-old Navy commander, joined the White House medical staff in December 2016 after serving as a Navy emergency medic and serving in a trauma unit in Afghanistan. The American newspaper reports that those who have worked with Conley believe that the public statements he has made appear to be dictated by politicians. "Every statement he makes seems to be political, dictated by the White House or the president," says an anonymous source who has worked with the doctor.

- The White House on Sunday sent its first email to all staff since the president's diagnosis advising whether to go to work or stay home.

- The White House has published a photograph of Trump inside Walter Reed Hospital allegedly participating in a teleconference with the Vice President, the Secretary of State and the Chief of Defense Staff. The caption also indicates that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was physically present in the room with Trump despite CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) guidelines that individuals who have COVID-19 should "stay at home and away from other people."

- Mary Trump, the president's niece, has stated that the US is "in the horrible place it is" because members of her family, including the president, see the disease as "a show of unforgivable weakness", whether in themselves or others. Speaking on NPR's Fresh Air program, Mary Trump, who recently published the book 'Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man' [Demasiado y nunca suficiente: cómo mi familia creó al hombre más peligroso del mundo]He said, "That's why we are in the horrible place that we are, because you cannot admit the weakness of being sick or that other people are sick."