(18 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vatican City – 18 February 2025
1. Saint Peter’s Basilica and tourists walking
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome, Italy – 18 February 2025
2. Doctor Carmelo D’Asero entering the physiotherapy ward of elderly people centre
3. Various of doctor visiting a patient
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Carmelo D’Asero, infectious diseases specialist and expert in geriatric diseases:
"The Pope is at risk of pneumonia because of this poly microbial bronchitis that seems to be, from the data we have, resistant to some antibiotics. We will see the effect of this new therapy in four to five days. We will see if the patient is better or not.”
5. Various of doctor visiting a patient
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Carmelo D’Asero, infectious diseases specialist and expert in geriatric diseases:
"A high fever is a sign of an immune response to a pathogen. Having a low fever and having a serious bronchial infection, because the Pope has a serious infection, because they had to change antibiotics, is a sign of a decreased immune response and that makes us worry a little bit more let’s say. Maybe if he had a fever it would have been better.”
7. Various of doctor visiting a patient
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Carmelo D’Asero, infectious diseases specialist and expert in geriatric diseases:
"You should see another very important thing: how is the cardio-respiratory system? How is the heart functioning? If the heart is OK, there will certainly be no life-threatening problems for the Pope. If, on the other hand, there’s also the cardio-circulatory system that’s not working well, of course there are more worries though."
9. Various of Agostino Gemelli Hospital where Pope is hospitalized
10. Close up shot of the window of the floor where the Pope is hospitalized
STORYLINE:
A doctor who has spent decades treating respiratory infections in the elderly believes the Pope’s health situation is serious.
However, Carmelo D’Asero, who is not a member of Francis’s medical team, said that the new antibiotic therapy could start to work within three to four days.
While the Pope’s fever subsided, D’Asero warned this could indicate a weakened immune response, something that could be a cause for more concern than a high fever.
Francis once again had a peaceful night, ate breakfast and read the newspapers Tuesday morning, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said. A more detailed medical update was expected later.
On Monday, Francis resumed doing some work and made his daily call to a Gaza City parish to check in on the Catholic community there.
The Vatican on Tuesday canceled papal audiences through the weekend and delegated others to cover for Pope Francis as the 88-year-old pope remained hospitalized with a multi-pronged respiratory infection.
The cancellations put a damper on upcoming events of the Vatican’s big Holy Year, the once-every-quarter-century celebration of Catholicism that is aimed at encouraging pilgrims to come to Rome to participate in special Jubilee activities.
Expected to draw some 30 million people to Rome, the Holy Year is packed with special papal audiences and Masses throughout 2025, some of which have now been put into question given Francis’ illness.
Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital in a “fair” condition on Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened.
On Monday, medical personnel determined that he was suffering from a polymicrobial respiratory tract infection, a mix of viruses, bacteria and possibly other organisms had colonized in his respiratory tract.
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