(22 Feb 2025)
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Vatican City – 22 February 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Winfield, Associated Press:
"There’s a somber mood in the Vatican this evening as Pope Francis’s doctors report that he suffered a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis this morning. It required high flows of oxygen. Pope Francis also received a blood transfusion. That after tests showed that he was suffering a low platelet count and anemia. This is the first time that the Vatican has reported that he is in a reserved prognosis, meaning that it is touch and go and requires closer observation. That said, the Pope was sitting up, he was in his armchair by this afternoon awake and alert but apparently in more pain than he has been. At the same time the Vatican hierarchy is trying to tamp down rumors and speculation about his health, whether he might resign given his condition. The Vatican Secretary of State spoke to one of Italy’s leading newspapers to say this kind of speculation is really inappropriate. What is needed are prayers for Pope Francis’s recovery and return to the Vatican."
2. Various of St Peter’s Square, UPSOUND: bells tolling
STORYLINE:
The Vatican says Pope Francis is in critical condition after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required high flows of oxygen.
Francis has been hospitalized for a week with a complex lung infection.
The Vatican said on Saturday that Francis also received blood transfusions after tests showed a condition associated with anemia.
The statement said that the "Holy Father continues to be alert and spent the day in an armchair although in more pain than yesterday. At the moment the prognosis is reserved.”
Doctors have warned that the main threat facing Francis would be the onset of sepsis, a serious infection of the blood that can occur as a complication of pneumonia.
As of Friday, there was no evidence of any sepsis, and Francis was responding to the various drugs he is taking, the pope’s medical team said in their first in-depth update on the pope’s condition.
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