Trump mistakenly dismisses the danger of the virus: “You catch it, you get better, and you have immunity.”

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JORDYN PHELPS, ABC News

(Washington) — President Donald Trump once again downplayed his own illness and threat to Americans across the country while continuing to receive medical care at the White House a few days after being hospitalized for COVID-19.

“Remember that catching it will improve and immunize you,” he said, on election day just weeks after leaving Walter Reed Hospital on Monday, Fox Business anchor Maria Berti. He told Lomo in his first extensive interview.

The president’s ongoing efforts to minimize danger have killed more than 211,000 Americans due to the virus, which continues to spread throughout the United States, including within the White House and within his own administration. It comes from that.

He advertised Regeneron antibody treatment, which he considered “a cure” without evidence, but described it as not requiring hospitalization and suggested that “without the drug, it would work.”

“I didn’t have to be frank, I think it disappeared naturally,” Trump said.

The president is confident in his condition that he has been treated with steroids, even though he has been fighting the virus after two recent oxygen doses and has not taken any other medications. It seems that you have confirmed that.

“I don’t think I’m taking almost anything,” Trump said. “I think you’ll go a little longer, they have steroids, it’s not a heavy steroid, they make it a little longer, but I’m not taking, I’m taking almost nothing No. Good feeling. “

The White House and the president’s doctors said the basics of Trump’s illness and treatment, including the last time Trump was negative for COVID-19 before being tested positive and how the virus affected the lungs. Refused to answer a typical question.

“I’ll be tested right away, but I’m pretty pretty in nature. They say it’s over a 6-7 day period, and I was — you’re just me I know something amazing happened to me just entering, I wasn’t feeling well, and that’s okay, I expected it at some point, “Trump said the virus” micro. I compared it to “visual dust.”

The president said he felt he was able to do it last night because he thinks it’s not “no longer” contagious, even though he hasn’t been tested, and he wants to do a rally tonight.

“I stand alone, far away from anyone,” the president said when attending the rally, whether contagious or not. But the president then added, “I haven’t gone yet” to the rally, if so.

“I think it’s better when I want to do a rally tonight. I wanted to do a rally last night. But I think I feel better than myself. I joked 20 years ago. I think it’s perfect. There’s nothing wrong with it, “Trump said.

The White House does not say when Trump received his last negative test before being diagnosed with the virus on Thursday, but according to a USA Today survey, the president and his team of aides said the president Days leading up to the diagnosis of.

“You know you’re 99.9% younger than your very real age, no problem. That means they may feel a little sick, but they won’t die,” Trump told Baltilomo. Falsely suggested that the virus only poses a threat to the elderly in the country.

It’s true that older people and people with underlying illnesses are at greatest risk of getting serious illnesses from the virus, but the president’s comment is that young Americans have serious illnesses and deaths and those people. Ignore the possibility of spreading the disease. For individuals at greater risk.

The president acknowledged his own rapid recovery to his treatment against unproven antibody therapy developed by the pharmaceutical company Regeneron: “I don’t know what would happen without Regeneron, I know. Everything felt I got better within 24 hours. “

This treatment has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration and is given for compassionate use only to less than 10 other people in the world outside of clinical trials.

But now, Mr. Trump said he wants to make it available to “a small number of older people and everyone” for free.

“What I’m trying to do is use Regeneron and Eli Lilly equivalents, both of which are great, but very similar,” he said. “I will send them to all hospitals for free.”

It is unclear how the president will implement his stated plan to distribute the drug widely and free of charge.

The president said he would give the drug company an emergency license, which requires scientific approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

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