NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- President Trump indicated Sunday that he no longer has the coronavirus, saying in a TV interview that "it seems like I’m immune," a claim that was impossible to prove and one that added to the unknowns about the president’s health.
Trump's physician said Saturday night in a memo that the president was no longer at risk of transmitting COVID-19 to others. The memo did not explicitly say if the president had tested negative in a COVID-19 test.
In a Fox News interview on Sunday morning, "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump about the memo from his doctor.
“The note that you have revealed from your doctor, which says you are no longer considered a transmission risk. Does this suggest you no longer have COVID, sir?” Bartiromo said.
“Yes, and not only that, it seems like I’m immune,” Trump said. “So I can go way out of a basement, which I would have done anyway and which I did, because you have to run a country. You have to get out of the basement. And it looks like I’m immune for, I don’t know, maybe a long time. Maybe a short time. It could be a lifetime. Nobody really knows. But I’m immune, so the president is in very good shape to fight the battle.”
The president returned to the White House on Monday following a three-night stay at Walter Reed Medical.
"This evening I am happy to report that in addition to the President meeting CDC criteria for the safe discontinuation of isolation, this morning’s Covid PCR sample demonstrates, by currently recognized standards, he is no longer considered a transmission risk to others," Dr. Sean Conley wrote in the memo released Saturday night.
He continued, "Now at day 10 from symptom onset, fever-free for well over 24 hours and all symptoms improved, the assortment of advanced diagnostic tests obtained reveal there is no longer evidence of actively replicating virus."
Dr. Conley concluded, "In additional, sequential testing throughout his illness has demonstrated decreasing viral loads that correlate with increasing cycle threshold times, as well as decreasing and now undetectable subgenomic mRNA."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.