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Well, sort of a fact.

They're currently using a variety HIV, ebola, and arthritis drugs to combat COVID-19.  Supposedly those with severe lung damage seem to responding well to a rheumatoid arthritis drug.  So there is a developed treatment for it, it's unclear how effective it is though.  

By the way, the new official name appears to be SARS-CoV-2.  So if it's anything like SARS, by the time summer is over, the disease will be pretty much done.  There have no cases of SARS since 2004.

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There’s a reason why I said “developed treatment” instead of just “treatment.” Drugs for HIV, Ebola, and arthritis are not drugs developed for COVID-19. 

"SARS was also a coronavirus in 2002. It infected 8,000 people, and it killed about 775. It had a mortality of about 9 to 10%. That's only 8,000 people in about a year. In the two and a half months that we've had this coronavirus, as you know we now have multiple multiples of that. So it clearly is not as lethal. And I'll get to the lethality in a moment, but it certainly spreads better. Probably for the practical understanding of the American people, the seasonal flu we deal with every year has a mortality of 0.1%. The stated mortality overall of this when you look at all the data, including China, is about 3%, it first started off as 2 and now 3. I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic, that probably brings the mortality down to around 1%. Which means this is ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu."

So there you have it, for all those comparing this to the seasonal flu. Amazingly, a virus that first came to the US in January hasn't yet had the impact of the endemic flu. But, unsurprisingly, it is false equivalence to compare the annual death rate of the flu to a virus that no one had in the country three months ago.

.. and then the president has said a vaccine will be available soon and that 'A lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat.'.

And downplayed the numbers in comparison to the annual 'flu figures.

When it comes to Trump and the coronavirus, it makes me think of a line by Shakespeare: "Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee, command the health of it?"

How low can 45 go?

We now see how he's handling a real crisis. Pretty much like his bankrupt businesses. 

EDIT: 45 has to find a way to blame the black man who wears a tan suit. He's always the cause of our problems.