Bill Gates says Trump’s coronavirus treatment won’t work for everyone, shouldn’t be called ‘cure’
Dr. Ronny Jackson, former White House physician, on the president’s coronavirus recovery, the Regeneron antibody treatment and Obamagate.
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said Sunday that the Regeneron antibody cocktail administered to President Trump to treat a case of COVID-19 shouldn’t be referred to as a “cure.”
“The word ‘cure’ is inappropriate because it doesn’t work for everyone,” Gates told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “But yes, of all the therapeutics, this is the most promising.”
Although an effective vaccine is an ultimate goal for putting an end to the pandemic, Gates noted that monoclonal antibodies allow for treatment that doesn’t require admission to a high percentage of the population.
“With the monoclonal antibodies, it’s only once somebody tests positive, show symptoms and they’re old enough they’re at risk,” Gates said. “That’s the target for this therapeutic.”
He added that if the monoclonal antibody treatments can be approved for
