Coronavirus updates: Trump calls diagnosis 'blessing in disguise'

In a nearly five-minute video posted to Twitter Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump said he thought the monoclonal antibody cocktail he received from Regeneron on a compassionate-use basis “was the key to his recovery,” and that he wants everyone to have access to it.

“I want everybody to be given the same treatment as your president. Because I feel great. I feel, like, perfect,” the president said in his latest video update on his health. He wasn’t wearing a mask in the video.

Trump said his administration is trying to get Regeneron’s therapy, as well as a similar one from Eli Lily, authorized on an emergency basis, a process up the Federal Drug Administration.  

“I want to get for you what I got -- and I’m gonna make it free -- you’re not going to pay for it,” he said, adding that it was his suggestion that he take the antibody cocktail. 

So far, fewer than 10 people have received access to the Regeneron treatment outside of clinical trials, Regeneron CEO George Yancopoulos told ABC News on Friday. 

During the video, Trump also called getting COVID-19 a “blessing from God” and “a blessing in disguise,” because he was then able to try the therapy.

“For me, I walked in, I didn’t feel good. A short 24 hours later I was feeling great,” said Trump, who left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday after he was hospitalized Friday.

Trump’s doctors said Monday the president “may not entirely be out of the woods yet,” but they are using a “multi-pronged approach” in his treatment, which will continue as he recuperates at home.

ABC News’ Ben Gittleson contributed to this report.

Over the last two weeks, the number of weekly reported COVID-19 cases in Montana has doubled, Gov. Steve Bullock said Wednesday, as the state set records in cases and hospitalizations.

There were 2,451 new cases this week, up from 1,249 last week, Bullock said at a briefing. Eighteen counties had "significant increases" in new cases this week, he said, with about 800 combined from Yellowstone and Flathead counties. The last coronavirus-free county, Petroleum County, reported its first infection this week, Bullock said.

On Wednesday, Montana also reported record numbers of new daily cases, with 733, and current hospitalizations, with 235.

 ABC News' Lauren Botchan contributed to this report.

Utah recorded a record high of 226 coronavirus hospitalizations on Wednesday, The Salt Lake City Tribune reported.

The numbers were released hours before the vice presidential debate in Salt Lake City.

Utah recorded 1,007 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the Tribune reported. The state's goal was to keep weeklong averages under 400 daily new cases.

Utah now has over 80,000 COVID-19 cases and at least 496 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins.

Much of the Northeast is expected to see coronavirus infection rates rise in the next four weeks, according to new weekly projections from PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Cases are forecast to more than double in Boston in the next month if social distancing and other conditions stay as they are, PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) said in a statement.

In New York City, the forecast is worse for all five boroughs for the first time since spring, according to PolicyLab at CHOP.

Hospitalizations are on the rise in the Midwest and Northeast. Hospitalizations doubled in Wisconsin over the last month and have increased nearly 50% in Massachusetts since mid-September, the group said.

Meanwhile, Oregon is showing to be among "the most concerning" spots in the U.S., due to "explosive growth in case counts and quickly rising testing positivity rates that have more than doubled in some areas," PolicyLab at CHOP said.

ABC News' Brian Hartman contributed to this report.