Pope Francis’s latest medical bulletin has a cautiously optimistic tone, with doctors saying he has shown a slight improvement for the second day in a row. Though they are still refraining from offering an overall prognosis.
In a 26 February statement, which was issued, as has become usual, in the early evening (Rome time), the Vatican said the Pope’s clinical conditions over the past 24 hours “have shown a further, slight improvement".
The mild kidney damage he had been treated for the past two days “has resolved", the statement said, adding that a chest scan performed Tuesday showed “a normal evolution of the pulmonary inflammation", indicating that the Pope’s pneumonia is following a standard trajectory.
