Trump boasts he is ‘perfect physical specimen’ and claims to be ‘immune’ to Covid

Donald Trump made a series of claims regarding his health after he was hospitalised for three days due to the coronavirus, and the claims included calling himself the “perfect physical specimen”.

The president went on a phone call with Fox Business on Thursday morning when he was asked if other Americans would have access to the coronavirus treatments he received while at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for three days.

“Yeah they’re going to get it,” he said about the treatments, adding: “I’m back because I am perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young, and so I am lucky in that way.”

Mr Trump went on to state other aspects of his health that he claims helped him fight the novel virus, including having no “heart problems” and no “diabetes”.

“I don’t have any of the problems you hear about,” Mr Trump claimed on Thursday. “Perhaps a couple of pounds here and there.”

Based on past annual physical reports, Mr Trump was in the obese category for his weight. The president being a 74-year-old male also caused concern because it put him in an age group more at risk for serious complications with Covid-19.

Mr Trump went on to state that once people catch the novel virus “you get better”.

“What happens is you get better,” he said, listing drugs available now to treat coronavirus that includes Regeneron – an antibody therapy treatment not yet approved by the FDA to treat Covid-19 and not accessible to most of the general public.

(The Independent)