It didn't take long. A few days after being released from the hospital, President Trump proclaimed that he was "cured" of COVID-19. "No, not at all," was what Dr. Nancy Nielsen said when asked if she agreed with President's self-diagnosis. "That's just not the way to look at this disease at all," said Nielsen, the former President of the American Medical Association. During her weekly discussion with WBFO, she offers a closer look at the President's treatment, one that is not readily available to most people.
"He claims the monoclonal antibodies he got at Walter Reed (National Military Medical Center) cured him. They don't even work that way," Nielsen explained.
The treatment, she says, works to "prevent the virus from attaching to cells so it's used early in disease." The President, of course, is frequently tested for the coronavirus which allowed for an early diagnosis.
"There aren't any large scale trials yet. I think by the time he got his dose at Walter Reed only about 275 people had received this at all," said Nielsen.
"He wasn't cured and I think we have to remember these are very, very expensive products and they're not going to be widely available to all Americans anytime soon and anybody who says they are is definitely over-promising."
