Trump touts Regeneron treatment
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From the October 9, 2020, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: So many different things -- right to try, where they can try medicines. I mean I can sort of give you an example of that with the COVID because I was in not great shape and we have a medicine that healed me, that fixed me, it's a great medicine and had I not gotten it, Rush, it would have been in line for another year, probably, before they brought it out. Great company, two great companies actually make it, two -- you know make very similar things but that they both work equally well. And we're going to send it, we're already sending it -- is starting the process is hundreds of thousands of vials are being sent to the hospitals all over the country. People are going to get immediately better like I did. I mean I feel better now than I did two weeks ago, it's crazy, and I recovered immediately -- almost immediately. I might not have recovered at all from COVID. To me, it's the biggest story but the press does not even want to report that, you know. They talk about the vaccines and the vaccines are very important, Rush, but this is more important because we can go into hospitals and clean out the hospitals, literally, with people that -- the vaccines are very important -- it's a different stage.
RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): Well, yeah, this is the antibodies that you're speaking of.
TRUMP: This is the antibody. This is the antibody, and Regeneron, it’s the most unbelievable thing I’ve ever seen. And I had a meeting with doctors today. You know, it’s always -- the good thing about when you're president, 11 doctors show up and they’re all the head of Johns Hopkins and this and that. They’re great people. But Walter Reed is an incredible place. These 11 guys came in today. They showed me stats. It’s amazing. I don’t know I would have -- I don’t know that, you know, I was not in the greatest of shape. A day later I was fine, maybe perfect, but I was fine. But a couple of days later, now I’m free. You know, I feel perfect. I have no, I’m not taking anything. You know, I’m off any regimen that they gave me, but it was primarily this one drug. And we’re sending that and the Eli Lilly version of it, which is very similar. We’re sending that to all of our hospitals. We’re going to get people better. We've got to get it there fast. That’s why I’m doing an emergency use authorization. I've got to get them to approve it really fast.
But I gave them my numbers to put in with the other numbers that they already have, which are very good, excellent, and it’s -- you know, it’s the most amazing thing -- and it’s not Remdesivir. Maybe that helps a little bit. But Remdesivir is from not the same thing. This is stuff that is so good. It just wiped out the virus. It wiped it out.
LIMBAUGH: Well, I’ll tell you --
TRUMP: It’s such a big story to me.
LIMBAUGH: It was scary when we heard that you had tested positive, given your demographics.
TRUMP: Right.
LIMBAUGH: You were right there in the No. 1 target area for people that have trouble with this. And it’s so, you sound great!
TRUMP: I feel great.
LIMBAUGH: I’ve been reading that you've got a hacking cough and that your voice is hoarse --
TRUMP: No, no, no.
LIMBAUGH: And you sound perfectly normal to me.
TRUMP: Well, there’s always that little, you know, that little lingering thing for a couple of days. But, no, I have a -- my voice is now perfect. I mean, for a couple of days, you know, it’s called the lingering thing. If you have a hay fever, if you have something, you have that too, a little bit. But, no, this is the most amazing thing that’s happened, and I was asking the doctors today — 11 guys, great people, the heads of the biggest hospitals. It’s amazing. I guess the president has a lot of power, but everybody shows up. “What do you do?” “I’m the head of Johns Hopkins,” or “I’m the head of” -- it’s always like that, but they’re very brilliant people, and I said, “How bad was I?” They said, “You could have been very bad. You were going into a very bad phase.” So it wasn’t like it was just going to be like with the kids, where they get it and they get sniffles and they’re better two days later, right? This looks like it was going to be a big deal -- and you know what that means, right? That means bad, because I’ve lost five people, at least five people that were friends of mine. One in particular, an incredible guy who went in there, went into the hospital, he was dead within three days. And I’m just saying that we have something that will cure this now. And a cure. And without us, without Trump administration, this would never have happened. We poured money into these cures, and we poured money into the vaccines. And the vaccines are coming along great, Rush. I mean, the vaccines, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Pfizer, they’re all coming along great. They’re a little bit political. You know, they’re afraid it’s going to go too fast and I’ll get credit for it before the election.
LIMBAUGH: Well, that’s another thing I wanted to mention. You know, Mr. President, you have been forced because of media coverage to tout your own successes.