One of the drugs being used to treat President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 infection has been shown to cause adverse psychiatric effects in patients and can also lead a patient to falsely believe that he or she has superhuman strength.
A Stanford Law professor who was treated with the drug dexamethasone (a corticosteroid administered to reduce inflammation), noted Sunday on Twitter she believes that fact that Trump is on the drug is the clearest sign yet that he’s “incapacitated.”
Michele Dauber, who teaches law and sociology, warned:
I was treated with Dexamethasone following brain surgery. It is (as my team told me) a drug that seriously messes with your mind. It is a bad drug. I could not wait to get off it. Unfortunately you have to wean off which takes time. Trump is incapacitated.
— Michele Dauber (@mldauber) October 4, 2020
I couldn’t be President of my cat when I was on Dexamethasone. He should not be exercising the powers of the Office of President on that drug. We are lucky if he doesn’t start a war. He’s incapacitated.
— Michele Dauber (@mldauber) October 4, 2020
Dauber went on to explain how manic the drug made her feel while she was taking it:
I think the drive by thing he just did is potentially a symptom of Dexamethasone. In addition to warning of mood changes my surgeon told me it makes you feel like I could bike up Mt. Tam or run a marathon right after brain surgery when I still had staples in my head.
— Michele Dauber (@mldauber) October 4, 2020
Dexamethasone does indeed have some serious side-effects, according to Newsweek:
“(The drug) has helped reduce both inflammation and the mortality rate of some patients who contracted COVID, one study indicated. According to the NIH website, side effects from dexamethasone include hyperglycemia, secondary infections, psychiatric effects and avascular necrosis.”
Despite all of that, there are reports that Trump may leave the hospital as soon as today and return to the White House to resume his duties.
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