Trump Says Catching COVID-19 Was “Blessing From God” and Credits Regeneron’s Antibody Treatment for Recovery
Trump released a new video from the White House on Wednesday in which he said that his contraction of COVID-19 was a “blessing from God,” and he credited an experimental antibody treatment for his apparent recovery from the disease.
“I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it,” Trump said in a video filmed just outside the Oval Office on Wednesday.
*Trump claimed credit for engineering his own cure by requesting the antibody therapy, which is still in trials and unavailable except on a very limited basis. “This was a blessing in disguise. I caught it. I heard about this drug. I said, ‘Let me take it.’ It was my suggestion. I said, ‘Let me take it,’ and it was incredible the way it worked, incredible.
I spent four days there,” Trump said of Walter Reed, “and I went in, I wasn’t feeling so hot, and within a very short period of time they gave me Regeneron, it’s called Regeneron, and other things too, but I think this was the key but they gave me Regeneron and it was like unbelievable.”*
We’re trying to get them on an emergency basis,” Trump added. “We’ve authorized it. I’ve authorized it and if you’re in the hospital and you’re feeling really bad, I think we’re going to work it so that you’re going to get them and you’re going to get them free.
