WASHINGTON (US) – US President Donald Trump said that getting infected with the coronavirus was a “blessing from God”, as he got exposure to experimental treatments. In a video address released on Wednesday, he vowed that such treatments would become free for all Americans.
Trump recurrently talked on how he has felt a lot better after recovering from COVID-19. However, it was not clear if he was still testing positive for the virus.
Trump said that using the medication from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc had given him first-hand experience on the effectiveness of the same. “I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it. This was a blessing in disguise.”
He said, “I want to get for you what I got. And I’m going to make it free”, calling the unapproved medicine a “cure.”
Trump divulged that he had gotten back to the White House “a day ago”, implying that the video would have been recorded on Tuesday. On the other hand, Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, said the video was recorded earlier on Wednesday.
Trump showed no symptoms of COVID-19 for the past 24 hours, his doctor Sean Conley said in a statement.
Conley said, “He’s now been fever-free for more than four days, symptom-free for over 24 hours, and has not needed, nor received, any supplemental oxygen since initial hospitalization.”
Trump has dismissed the opinion of experts by talking highly of the possibility that a vaccine might be available ahead of the election. He admitted in his video message that a vaccine would be out after the ballot because of “politics.”