总统唐纳德·特朗普周四，就在他被送往新冠肺炎医院几天后，他继续接受治疗在白宫，再一次淡化了自己的病和对全国美国人的威胁。
“记住，当你抓住它的时候，你会变得更好，你是免疫的，”他在他的第一次广泛采访中告诉福克斯商业主播玛利亚·巴蒂罗姆采访自从周一从沃尔特·里德医院出来选举再过几周就是这一天了。
总统继续努力将这种危险降至最低，与此同时，21.1万多名美国人死于这种病毒，这种病毒继续在美国许多地方蔓延，包括白宫内部和他自己的政府内部。
2020年10月5日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)从沃尔特·里德(Walter Reed)冠状病毒疾病医疗中心(新冠肺炎)住院治疗归来后，在白宫杜鲁门阳台上拍照时，他摘下了防护面罩。
尽管他吹捧自己接受的Regeneron抗体治疗是一种“治疗”，但没有证据，他认为住院治疗是不必要的，并暗示他“没有药物也能做得很好”。
特朗普说:“坦率地说，我不必进去，我认为它会自己消失。”
总统对他的状况充满信心，因为他最近几天两次接受氧气注射，因为他一直在与病毒作斗争，似乎证实他仍在接受类固醇治疗，尽管他说他已经停止了所有其他药物。
“我想我几乎什么也没拿，”特朗普说。“我觉得你再坚持一会儿，他们有类固醇，不是很重的类固醇，他们会再坚持一会儿，但是我没有服用，我几乎没有服用任何东西。我感觉很棒。”
白宫和总统的医生拒绝回答关于特朗普的疾病和治疗的基本问题，例如他最后一次新冠肺炎检测呈阴性是在他接受阳性检测之前，以及病毒对他的肺部产生了什么影响。
“我很快就要接受检查了，但我基本上很干净，他们说已经过了六、七天了，而我——你知道发生在我身上的神奇的事情我刚刚进去，我感觉不太好。“没关系，我在某个时候就预料到了，”特朗普说，将病毒比作“一片微小的灰尘”。
尽管没有经过测试，总统说他认为他“再也不会传染了”，并说他感觉很好，今晚想举行一次集会，并认为他昨晚可以举行一次。
总统说他是否会传染，如果他在集会上，“我袖手旁观本人离每个人都很远。”但总统随后补充说，如果他去了，他“仍然不会去”集会。
“我想今晚我会做一个集会，我昨晚就想做一个。但我认为我更好，在某种程度上，我感觉比20年前开玩笑说我感觉完美——没有错，”特朗普说。
白宫没有透露特朗普何时收到他的最后一次阴性测试但是《今日美国》的一项调查发现，总统和他的助手团队在总统确诊前的几天里，在他们的长途旅行中，有可能让成千上万的人接触到这种病毒。
“你知道99.9%低于一个非常可观的年龄，没有问题。我的意思是，他们可以感到有点不舒服，但他们不会死，”特朗普告诉巴蒂罗姆，错误地暗示病毒只对国家的老年人构成威胁。
虽然老年人和有潜在健康问题的人感染病毒引发的严重疾病的风险最大，但总统的评论忽略了美国年轻人中的严重疾病和死亡病例，以及这些人将疾病传播给更多高危人群的可能性。
总统将自己的快速康复归功于制药商雷杰龙开发的未经证实的抗体疗法:“我不知道没有雷杰龙会发生什么，我只知道我在24小时内有所好转，我觉得自己很完美。”
这种治疗未经美国食品和药物管理局批准，仅用于临床试验以外的不到10名其他人的同情使用。
但是现在，特朗普说，他想让“极小比例的老年人和所有人”免费获得它。
他说:“我要做的是选择雷根龙和礼来的同类产品，它们有点不同，你知道，都很棒，但非常相似。”。“我打算把它们免费送到所有的医院。”
目前还不清楚总统将如何执行他宣布的免费广泛分发药物的计划。
总统说，他将给予制药商紧急使用授权，但该授权必须得到食品和药物管理局的科学批准。
Trump falsely dismisses virus danger: 'You catch it, you get better, and you're immune'
PresidentDonald Trumpon Thursday, just days after being hospitalized for COVID-19 and as he continued to receive medical careat the White House, once again downplayed his own sickness and the threat to Americans across the country.
“Remember, when you catch it, you get better, and you’re immune," he told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo in his first extensiveinterviewsince getting out of Walter Reed hospital Monday andwith ElectionDay now just weeks away.
The president’s continued effort to minimize the danger comes as more than 211,000 American lives have died from the virus that continues to spread in many parts of the U.S., including inside the White House and within the ranks of his own administration.
President Donald Trump pulls off his protective face mask as he poses atop the Truman Balcony of the White House after returning from being hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment, Oct. 5, 2020.
Even as he touted the Regeneron antibody treatment he's taken as a “cure,” without evidence, he portrayed his hospitalization as having been unnecessary and suggested he could have “would have done it fine without drugs.”
“I didn't have to go in frankly, I think it would have gone away by itself,” Trump said.
The president’s confidence in his condition comes after he was twice administered oxygen in recent days as he has fought the virus and seemed to confirm he is still being treated with a steroid, even as he said he is off all other medications.
“I think I’m taking almost nothing,” Trump said. “I think you go a little bit longer on, they have steroid, it’s not heavy steroid, they have that go a little bit longer, but I am not taking, I am almost not taking anything. I feel great.”
The White House and the president's doctors have refused to answer basic questions about Trump's illness and treatments, such as when he last tested negative for COVID-19 before he received a positive test and what impact the virus has had on his lungs.
“I will be tested very soon, but I am essentially very clean, they say it’s over a period of six, seven days, and I was -- you know amazing thing happened to me I just went in, I didn't feel good. And that’s OK, I expected that at some point,” Trump said, likening the virus to a “microscopic piece of dust.”
Despite not having been tested, the president said he doesn’t think he is contagious “at all anymore” and said he is feeling so well that he would like to do a rally tonight and felt he could have done one last night.
The president said whether or not he is contagious, if he were at a rally “I stand by myself very far away from everybody.” But the president then added he “still wouldn’t go” to a rally if he were.
“I think I am better when to a point I would love to do a rally tonight, I wanted to do one last night. But I think I am better, to a point that I feel better than I did, you know, I jokingly said 20 years ago I feel perfect -- there is nothing wrong,” Trump said.
The White House has not said when Trump received hislast negative testprior to his diagnosis with the virus on Thursday, but a USA Today investigation found that the president and his team of aides potentially exposed thousands of people to the virus in their extensive travels in the days leading up to the president’s diagnosis.
“You know 99.9% below a very substantial age, has no problem. I mean, they can get it feel a little sick but they don't die,” Trump told Bartiromo, falsely suggesting that the virus only poses a threat to the nation’s elderly.
While it is true that older people and those with underlying health conditions are at greatest risk of contracting a serious illness from the virus, the president’s comments ignore the cases of serious illness and death among younger Americans and the potential for those people to spread the disease to more at-risk individuals.
The president credited his own quick recovery to his treatment to the unproven antibody therapy developed by drugmaker Regeneron: “I don't know what would with happen without Regeneron, all I know I had it I was better within 24 hours, I felt perfect.”
The treatment has not been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration and has been administered for compassionate use only for fewer than 10 other people in the world outside of clinical trials.
But now, Trump said, he wants to make it available, at no cost, to the “tiny percentage of senior citizens and all.”
“What I’m going to do is take Regeneron, and take the Eli Lilly equivalent, they’re a little different, you know, both great, but very similar,” he said. “I’m going to send them free of charge to all the hospitals.”
It’s unclear how the president would execute on his stated plan to distribute the drug broadly and for free.
The president said he will be giving the drugmaker an emergency use authorization but that authorization must come with the scientific approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
