I’m free of COVID-19, says Trump

President Donald Trump said yesterday his doctors had found he no longer had COVID-19 and would not be a transmission risk to others as he returns to holding big rallies during the final weeks of the race for the White House.

Trump’s physician said on Saturday that the president had taken a test showing he was no longer infectious and there was no evidence “of actively replicating virus,” but did not directly say whether Trump had tested negative.

“I passed the highest test, the highest standards, and I’m in a great shape,” Trump, who spent three days in the hospital after revealing he had tested positive on October 2, said on Fox News Channel.

Trump said he was no longer on medications for the coronavirus. “I beat this crazy, horrible China virus,” he said, adding: “it seems like I’m immune.”

The scientific evidence is unclear on whether people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection, and how long that immunity might last.

– The Nation