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Trump and his mouth and nose mask (at the TV duel on September 30)
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"It looks like I'm immune," said US President Donald Trump, 74, on Sunday in a telephone interview with the news broadcaster Fox News, who was inclined to him, and translated: "It looks like I'm immune."
The perceived immunity is like a "protective shine" for him, according to Trump, he feels "fantastic" and said that he no longer takes any medication.
According to his own assessment, he is healthy.
He passed the toughest tests and was in great shape.
Trump said he had tested positive for the corona virus on October 1.
Because of a disease of Covid-19, he was treated for three days from October 2 at the Walter Reed Military Hospital near Washington DC.
Experts believe that people who have survived a corona infection can be immune to the virus.
For how long, but it is still unclear.
Trump made a public campaign appearance for the first time on Saturday.
At noon he spoke from the balcony of the White House to supporters of the Black and Hispanic communities who had gathered on the lawn below.
Previously, he had kept the status of his illness a secret and had avoided questions about current test results in interviews.
In the interview on Sunday, Trump again promoted Covid treatment with an experimental antibody cocktail from the biotech company Regeneron that was administered to him in the hospital.
The drug is not a treatment method, but a "cure" and a "miracle" that should soon be available to everyone, said Trump.
However, the antibody treatments developed by several manufacturers have not yet been officially approved and will only be available in relatively small numbers for the foreseeable future.
Critics suspect Trump is promoting the drug as a miracle weapon to use it to distract from his administration's failure to contain the pandemic ahead of the November 3 presidential election.
According to Trump's personal doctor, the US president is no longer contagious.
The latest coronavirus test has shown according to "currently recognized standards" that Trump "no longer represents a transmission risk for others," said medical doctor Sean Conley on Saturday evening in a letter distributed by the White House.
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