MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Top US infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, says US President Donald Trump has acquired temporary immunity to the coronavirus, but should probably still wear a face mask.
Doctors discharged Trump from the hospital last week after he tested negative for COVID-19. The president himself said he does not think he is contagious. “When you catch it, you get better, and then you are immune”, the president said.
However, Fauci, who is the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that he would still wear a mask to be extra careful.
The infectious disease expert pointed out that there have been cases of people getting reinfected with the coronavirus. “So you really have to be careful that you do not completely quote ‘immune'”, Fauci told CNN.
White House Physician Dr Sean Conley said in a Monday statement that Trump had tested negative for the coronavirus.
Conley added that apart from this particular test, Trump has also undergone antigen tests and other procedures that all indicate a lack of detectable viral replication, which means that Trump is not infectious to others.
Meanwhile researchers have reported what appears to be the first death from a reinfection with the coronavirus. According to findings published in the Oxford University Press, the patient was an 89-year-old Dutch woman suffering from a type of white blood cell cancer.
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