His statement is the embodiment of leadership.

"Look here, I don't want to get the virus either so I am going to take this as a preventative. If I can take it as the most important man in the US, then you can too. Because it's safe!"

A portin of the fear about this whole thing is that we can't treat it, but that is totally false. He is busting their narrative, on live TV. They have to cover it!