An insider who was in the Oval Office when a man collapsed as President Donald Trump announced lower costs for weight loss drugs is sharing what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was doing during the commotion.

Clips of the Health and Human Services Secretary appearing to leave the room as others sprang into action during the Thursday, Nov. 6 press conference quickly began to go viral online.

Kennedy was called out for appearing to ” flee the scene” and “skedaddle” while Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, caught the man’s fall after quickly hurrying over.

With the help of other men in the room, Oz then laid the man down as Kennedy walked away from the incident and another man seemingly said he’d go get a chair.

A source who was present at the conference tells PEOPLE that “three doctors” were around the man when the incident occurred as Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks was speaking.

According to the source, Kennedy “went into the other room and got a chair because when [the man] first started falling, he thought maybe he just needed to sit.”

“He went back and got a wet towel and came over and [the man] was on the floor,” the source continues. “When they were first propping him up, Kennedy ran in the other room and got a chair for him.”

White House deputy press secretary Kush Desai defended Kennedy on X by responding to a post that criticized him for leaving the room.

“The Secretary rushed to get medical assistance while others tended to the man, you ghoul,” said Desai.

The source says the man who fainted was in “pretty bad shape.”

While the man was “conscious” and his heart rate “looked normal,” the source says “his blood pressure was in the tank.”

“He tried to sit up for a while but he was definitely pale and they laid him down again and then they took him out on a gurney,” says the source.

After the incident, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the press pool that the man was doing “okay” and that the press conference would resume.

Once it restarted, Trump addressed the incident, stating that “one of the representatives of one of the companies got a little light-headed and so they went down, and he’s fine.”

“He’s got doctor’s care, but he’s fine. So we had a little bit of an interruption. Sorry for that,” the president said.

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Although Getty Images initially identified the man as Gordon Findlay, the global brand director for Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company later stated to multiple outlets that Findlay was not present at the event.