By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Kansas First District Congressman and current U.S. Senate candidate Republican Dr. Roger Marshall said Friday that he is praying for President Trump and his wife as they deal with COVID-19.
"Like everybody in America, we're praying for the President's health, Melania's health," Marshall said. "It's certainly humbling. As a doctor, I just always learned that viruses, bacteria, your health, doesn't care who you are. It can sure impact you and we're praying for their speedy recovery."
Marshall notes that there are a lot of different options the President's doctors could take, depending on how severe his disease turns out to be.
"It could be nothing, to ending up in an ICU and everything in between," Marshall said. "I sure do believe that we've improved the treatment just so, so very much. I was on a phone call yesterday with folks that are doing the convalescent plasma and the great, great results that they're having. That's not through the studies yet, but it just looks incredibly well and there are antiviral agents out there, as well. There are lots of better treatments."
Marshall noted that campaigning from quarantine would be a challenge, one he's glad not to have in his Senate race.
"It's obviously next to impossible," Marshall said. "Kansans so badly want to see their candidate, look them in the eye. We learn more from a handshake than we do 30 minutes of a phone conversation. It's really, it's a struggle."
Marshall will be campaigning in Hutchinson this weekend as part of a statewide bus tour Saturday night.