(21 Feb 2025)
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Rome, Italy – 21 February 2025
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1. Wide of Gemelli Hospital at night
2. Pope’s doctors at press conference
3. Cutaway of journalist’s computer
4. Surgeon Sergio Alfieri (right) and Pope Francis personal doctor Luigi Carboni (left) listening to question
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Trisha Thomas, The Associated Press:
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“One week after Pope Francis was admitted here at Gemelli hospital, his doctor, Sergio Alfieri, the head of his medical team, met with reporters and said the Pope is out of danger. He said the Pope has been sitting in his room during the day, working on papers and occasionally goes in the chapel attached to his room and prays. He is being treated for pneumonia in both his lungs with what the doctor said was a lot of drugs, balancing cortisone with antibiotics. He said the only real danger would be if the germs got into his bloodstream causing a sepsis, and that would be very dangerous. He said knock on wood, on iron, whatever you believe in and hope that that doesn’t happen. If that doesn’t happen, he expects that the Pope will be here at least another week and then will eventually go back to the Vatican.“
6. Mid of entrance to hospital ++DAY SHOTS++
7. Windows on 10th floor where Pope is staying
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis’ complex respiratory infection isn’t life-threatening but he’s not out of danger, his medical team said Friday, as the 88-year-old pontiff marked his first week in the hospital battling pneumonia in both lungs — along with bacterial, viral and fungal infections on top of his chronic bronchitis.
Francis’ doctors delivered their first in-person update on the pope’s condition, saying he will remain at Rome’s Gemelli hospital at least through next week.
The pope is receiving occasional supplements of oxygen when he needs it and is responding to the drug therapy that was strengthened after the multiple infections were diagnosed, they said.
Gemelli hospital Dr. Sergio Alfieri and Francis’ personal physician, Dr. Luigi Carbone, said Francis remains in good spirits and humor.
Francis was admitted to Gemelli hospital on Feb. 14 after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened.
Doctors first diagnosed the complex respiratory infection and then the onset of pneumonia in both lungs on top of chronic bronchitis.
They prescribed “absolute rest.”
Alfieri said the pope came down with a seasonal infection that has filled hospitals.
He is also fighting a multipronged infection caused by bacteria, virus and fungus in the respiratory tract.
Doctors said there was no evidence the germs had entered his bloodstream, a condition known as sepsis that they said remains the biggest concern.
Sepsis is a complication of an infection that can lead to organ failure and death.
The doctors said Francis’ chronic bronchitis had caused permanent damage to his airways, a condition known as bronchiectasis.
The cortisone treatment he received in the hospital has raised his blood sugar levels, requiring treatment for diabetes.
But Alfieri said he hoped the condition would be temporary.
In the best scenario, the pope will return to his residence cured of the infections, but his chronic conditions will remain, Alfieri said.
AP video shot by Oleg Cetinic
Production: Trisha Thomas
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