UFC president Dana White tests positive for Covid and seeks recovery advice from Joe Rogan

12/02/2021

UFC president Dana White has revealed he and his family tested positive for Covid-19 after Thanksgiving, and that he took recovery advice from ring announcer and podcast star Joe Rogan.

White may miss this weekend’s UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas as a result of contracting the disease, which Rogan also caught this year and treated in controversial fashion.

Speaking on The Jim Rome Podcast, White said: “We went up to my place in Maine for Thanksgiving. Somebody up there had it, and we get back and we all tested positive for Covid – literally the whole family and my family up in Maine, too.

“We got back on Saturday. On Sunday – I cold plunge and steam everyday – I get out of the cold plunge and I get in the steam, and I spray the eucalyptus and I couldn’t smell anything. So I open the bottle, I start sniffing the bottle of eucalyptus, and I’m like: ‘Yeah, I got no smell.’ So you know what this means.

“I literally got out of the steam, picked up my phone and called Joe Rogan.”

White, 52, continued: “[Joe] said: ‘As soon as you get up in the morning, get tested.’ So I get up 9 o’clock Monday morning, get tested, I test positive. He said get monoclonal antibodies in you as soon as possible, so I did. By noon, I had the monoclonal antibodies in me and then he told me to do a NAD drip. I did that.

“I get up Tuesday. Getting ready to shave, cleaning my razor, I could smell the alcohol. My taste and smell were back the next day by 11 o’clock in the morning. Then I took a dose of ivermectin yesterday and then I did a vitamin drip and then today I did another NAD drip.

“[I] could not feel better. Feel like a million bucks. I’m doing two-a-day workouts by the way for the next 10 days while I have Covid, I’m in quarantine. I got my smell and taste back in less than 24 hours.”

White went on to say he is in fact vaccinated against the disease, adding: “It’s not like I’m some crazy anti-vax conspiracy theorist or some of that stuff, but Rogan is a very brilliant guy, very smart guy who talks to the best and the brightest out there, and I’m not a believer in the narrative.

“But at the end of the day, this is a free country. ‘Cause what happens when you get this stuff, they tell you stay home for the next 10 days until you don’t test positive. That doesn’t seem smart to me. Just like when we went through Covid, I believe in finding solutions to problems and answers.

White hopes to appear at this weekend’s UFC Fight Night event in Las Vegas

“Rogan has worked with over 30 or 40 people that have done this and he swears by it, and he’s a good friend of mine that I’ve known for over 20 years. So yeah, I believe in what he’s saying. I believe the way he explained to me on how this thing works, [it] made sense to me.”

Despite a recommended 10-day isolation period, White is keen to appear at this Saturday’s UFC Fight Night event at the promotion’s Apex institute in Las Vegas.

“I’m attacking this thing with the methods that Rogan has learned from very smart people,” White said. “I’m going to keep testing every two days until I’m negative and then I’m going to get back to work ASAP. I hope [to be at this weekend’s UFC event].

UFC president Dana White tests positive for Covid and seeks recovery advice from Joe Rogan

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