Emergency medicine fun fact of the day: We typically only use helicopters for transport if things are *really* bad. We're talking "we can't get the to the hospital fast enough by ambulance and they need to be at the hospital ASAP or they'll die" bad. You know, like a car crash victim in need of a level I trauma center 30 miles away. It usually has to be really bad for a helicopter to get used.
This is *totally* apropos of nothing. It has *nothing* to do with the fact that the president has been transported by air to a hospital after testing positive for COVID. It's just a random fun fact for you. 😇
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Though, in seriousness, this is probably one of those times when the "typically" kicks in. Given that he's president, Trump condition wouldn't *necessarily* need to be critical for helicopter to be the preferred mode of transport. It could be protocol to transport a president by air. Or Trump might've just wanted to ride in the helicopter. That said, this isn't to say that his condition *isn't* critical either. Until we get more details, we really don't know.
