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President Trump boasted Wednesday of his fitness in a video posted on Twitter, calling his coronavirus diagnosis a “blessing from God. “
The video of the president he faces is one of many he posted on social media in the days following his admission and release from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Trump has taken a number of remedies for the virus, Remdesivir, the intravenous antiviral drug and a singles dose of Regeneron’s experimental antibody cocktail.
“I went in, I’m not very hot, and in no time they gave me Regeneron. His name is Regeneron. There are other things too, but I think that’s the key. But they gave me Regeneron. Et it Array like, I felt smart right away. ” Trump said in the five-minute video. The antibody-based drug Trump is referring to, REGN-COV2, is manufactured through the biotech company Regeneron.
“They call them therapeutic, but for me it wasn’t therapeutic. It made me better, okay? I call him a priest,” Trump said.
While so far more than 200,000 Americans have died of coronavirus, Trump called his own joy a “blessing. “
“I think it’s a blessing from God that I hit him. It’s a blessing in disguise. I hit him, I heard about this drug. I said, “Let me take it, ” that my suggestion, I said, “Let me take “And it’s amazing how it worked. Incredible,” Trump said in Wednesday’s Twitter video, promising that the drug would be loose and that it would “pay a high price” for China to bring the virus to Us shores.
“I need everyone to get the same remedy as their president because I feel good, I feel perfect,” he said.
Shortly after the video arrived on Twitter, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told Fox News that two remedies for COVID-19 had been presented to the FDA for an emergency use authorization. “Two of them were recruited to the U. S. today. ” Said. Provided additional details.
Pharmaceutical company Lilly filed an emergency use authorization wednesday for one of its antibody treatments; Regeneron demonstrated Wednesday night that he had also implemented for REGN-COV2.
Drugs referenced through Trump have only been obtained in very limited circumstances. Clinical evidence of medications is preliminary, perhaps sufficient for emergency use, but under the point required for full approval through the Food and Drug Administration. .
Trump’s contraction of the coronavirus, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has upset Washington politics weeks before a disputed white house election race and key seats in Congress.
In addition to the president, nearly two close White House contacts, adding the first lady, tested positive for the virus since Friday. The explosion of instances has highlighted the administration’s handling of the virus, as well as Trump’s overall minimisation of the pandemic and his weakening of traditional rules of fitness to dress up in masks and avoid crowds to curb the spread of the virus.
Many members of Trump’s close contacts who were recently affected by the virus also attended a September 26 occasion in the White House Rose Garden to announce Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Trump nomination to the Supreme Court.
But Trump and others have faced a wave of times over the past two weeks, given the time of the campaign.
Joe Palca, NPR clinical correspondent, contributed to the report.