The 88-year-old pontiff is in stable condition, receiving therapy but not necessarily improving, after giving the public a tangible indication of how frail and sick he is
Locals and tourists walk along a main street near St. Peter's Basilica, background, as the sun sets in Rome, Italy, on March 7.Pope Francis hit the three-week mark Friday in his hospitalization for double pneumonia, in stable condition, receiving therapy but not necessarily improving, after giving the world a tangible indication of just how frail and sick he is.
Dr. Jeffrey Millstein, a clinical assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, said it wasn’t shocking that Francis hadn’t improved in three weeks, and that it was encouraging he was able to breathe part of the day with just a nasal tube of high-flow oxygen. But he said that his condition certainly was “a precarious, touch and go kind of situation” and that recovery, while still possible, would be a long process.
“I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your prayers for my health from the square, I accompany you from here,” he said to the hushed square. “May God bless you and the Virgin protect you. Thank you.”
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