Trump Hails Unproven Drug as ‘a Cure’ and Calls Contracting the Virus ‘a Blessing From God’

President Trump returned to the Oval Office and addressed Americans in a video posted on Twitter. A White House outbreak now includes the head of its security office and the No. 2 official in the Marine Corps.

Check out the main points here:

• ‘I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it,’ Trump says of the virus in a new video.
• The president has returned to the Oval Office.
• The head of the White House security office is critically ill with Covid-19, and the No. 2 Marine Corps official has the virus.
• Trump is described as symptom-free, but experts question the significance of his antibody test results.
• Rejecting rest and recuperation, Trump aims to show he’s in charge.
• Trump blew up negotiations on a virus relief bill. He is having second thoughts.
• ‘Yellow gown,’ ‘surgical mask,’ ‘gloves’: A memo instructs White House staff how to navigate an infected president.
• Trump’s best-case political scenario? It might be Obama’s rebound in 2012 — but it’s a long shot.
• Trump benefits from access to treatments and care unavailable to most other Covid-19 patients.

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