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Donald Trump has claimed that he has a “protective glow” after he was cleared by the White House medical staff of the coronavirus.
The US president has also declared himself immune to the virus, despite official guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. COVID-19 it does not make a patient immune to the virus.
His comments come a day before a scheduled rally in Sanford, Florida, followed by another in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and in Iowa on Wednesday, and the campaign continues before Election Day on November 3.
“I beat this crazy and horrible virus from China,” the president told Fox News in a phone call Sunday, 10 days after the White House confirmed his diagnosis.
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He said he had passed “the highest test” and “the highest standards”, adding: “I have to tell you, I feel fantastic. I feel really good.”
“I even feel good about the fact that, you know, the word ‘immunity’ means something, really having a protective glow means something. I think it’s very important to have that, to have that is something very important.” .
“The doctors, the White House doctors, as you know, are the best, and they said, totally free of spread. There is no spread,” he said.
White House physician Sean Conley said Trump underwent a COVID-19 test on Saturday that showed that no longer a “transmission risk to others”.
The president’s interview came when Twitter tagged another of his posts for “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.”
Twitter tagged Donald Trump’s tweet about his claims about immunity
Trump said he had received “full and complete approval” from White House doctors, adding: “This means I can’t get it (immune) and I can’t give it. Good to know!”
Scientists worry that when patients overcome a coronavirus infection they are not necessarily immune to different strains of the virus, and that the antibodies they have to the strain they contracted it may not last more than a few months.
The official guide from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that overcoming the virus does not confer immunity.
In his call with Fox News, he offered different timescales for how long his “immunity” might last.
“It seems like I’m immune to, I don’t know, maybe a long time, maybe a short time. It could be a lifetime. No one really knows, but I’m immune. Once you recover, you’re immune.”
I have to tell you, I feel great. I really feel good, ” the president told Fox News.
He previously declared that the United States would “defeat this terrible virus from China” and claimed that a vaccine was imminent and that the military would distribute quickly.
“We are producing powerful therapies and drugs, and we are curing the sick … and the vaccine is coming out very, very fast and in record time, as you know, it will come out very, very soon,” he said.
Several vaccines are in an advanced testing stage following encouraging results, but it’s unclear when any might be approved and available for more widespread use.
He said that despite the “outbreaks” in different countries, COVID-19 “is disappearing, vaccines are going to help, therapies are going to help a lot.”
