October 10, 2020 02:00 pm
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Trumps COVID-19 experience doesnt prove anything
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
President Donald Trump says he’s recovered from COVID-19. Outside doctors say it’s too soon for him to return to public events, he’s coughing on Fox News, and he’s taking a potent steroid that can mask symptoms — but Trump says he’s not sick anymore. And he’s crediting that recovery to an experimental drug made by the company Regeneron, which he said on Wednesday was a “cure.”
“They gave me Regeneron, and it was, like, unbelievable. I felt good immediately,” he said in a video recorded at the White House.
There’s no evidence that the Regeneron drug had anything to do with how good Trump did or did not feel. There’s hardly any data that the drug, which is a cocktail of artificial antibodies against the coronavirus, works at all. So far,...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/10/21509652/antivirus-covid-trump-regeneron-antibody-treatment
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