(27 Feb 2025)
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ASSOSCIATED PRESS
Vatican City – 27 February 2025
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1. Wide of St. Peter’s Basilica
2. Wide of an altar in St. Peter’s Square
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Winfield, AP Vatican Correspondent:
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“Doctors say Pope Francis is continuing to show improvement as he battles double pneumonia. Today he was able to start alternating between the high flows of supplemental oxygen that he has been using to breath with a mask, that is a sign that his respiratory condition is improving. He was also able to get up and out of his hospital room and go down the hall to the private chapel that is located in the papal apartments on the 10th floor of the Gemelli Hospital. He went there to pray, it’s the first time we heard that he was able to get to the chapel since last Friday, that was before he had this significant respiratory crisis over the weekend. Doctors say his prognosis is still guarded, they say they want to see a few more days of clinical stability before they say he is out of danger.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome – 27 February 2025
4. Pope John Paul II statue outside the Gemelli hospital
5. Close of candles with pictures of Pope Francis
6. Person leaving a drawing among candles and flowers
7. Close of drawing
ASSOSCIATED PRESS
Vatican City – 27 February 2025
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8. Various of St. Peter’s Basilica
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis continued to improve from double pneumonia Thursday, the Vatican said, working from his hospital room and going to his private chapel to pray, though doctors said he needs more days of “clinical stability” before they revise their guarded prognosis.
The 88-year-old pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, was able to begin alternating high-flow supplemental oxygen, delivered by a nasal tube, with a mask in a sign of his improved respiratory condition, the Vatican said in a late update.
For the second day in a row, doctors avoided saying Francis was in critical condition. But they said that given the complexity of his lung infection, “further days of clinical stability are needed” before they revise their prognosis and decide he is out of danger.
Francis has been in Rome’s Gemelli hospital since Feb. 14 after a bout of bronchitis worsened.
He has shown steady, albeit slight improvements since a respiratory crisis and kidney trouble over the weekend sparked fears for his life.
The improvements, as he nears the two-week mark on Friday, beat back speculation of an imminent death, resignation or conclave and signaled that he was still very much in charge.
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