Joe Biden

Press chief says Biden, 79, who has had two boosters, is taking antiviral Paxlovid, while first lady Jill Biden has tested negative.

The US has been seeing as many as 150,000 new Covid cases a day, according to Johns Hopkins University. While this is Biden’s first bout of coronavirus, multiple members of his administration have contracted the virus. Before the event started, Biden briefly addressed news of her husband testing positive for Covid.

President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19, the White House said. He is "experiencing very mild symptoms" and taking Paxlovid.

At the time, the White House press secretary Jen Psaki conceded that it was possible that Biden could get COVID-19 but said there were no plans to increase testing or require masks around the president. At the time, in 2020, there were no vaccines available. At 79 years old, Biden’s age puts him at increased risk of serious symptoms from COVID-19, though unvaccinated older adults are at much higher risk than the double-boosted president.

President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid, the White House said on Thursday, raising concerns about his immediate health and underscoring the pandemic's ...

Trump has called the story “fake news.” Trump, who repeatedly downplayed the virus and often resisted wearing a mask, was sicker with Covid than was publicly acknowledged at the time, The New York Times reported in February 2021. Biden’s infection is the second time a U.S. president has been personally hit with the virus. He received drugs not widely available at the time, such as Regeneron’s antibody cocktail and the antiviral drug remdesivir, during his three-day stay in the hospital. The announcement of his infection comes as the White House is trying to manage crises on multiple fronts. “They’ve been preparing for this probably for several months now given the percentage of people in the country who have tested positive,” Psaki said. The White House has also consistently battled outside concerns and commentary about Biden’s age and health. The White House has continued to aggressively push for Americans to either get vaccinated or get their booster shots. The extra shots are even more important for adults 50 and older. It also comes just after Biden’s return from a trip to the Middle East and as the highly contagious BA.5 variant has raised concerns about another wave of infections across the globe. Among those was Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has been critical of the Covid vaccine. “The schedule will continue as planned.

And there it is: President Joe Biden has tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House announced Thursday morning, and is dosing up with Paxlovid to ...

In this current environment, however, “the virus has that many more pathways to spread through the community,” Bell told me—up to and including the president. Although the White House has made plenty of noise about the need for funding to keep the country awash in tests, treatments, and vaccines, Congress has not provided those resources, and the administration has not marshaled the political will to change that situation. At the beginning of this month, in a Fourth of July celebration, the president crowed that the country was “closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus”; weeks later, he is playing host to that same foe. And although he might have had access to the tools needed to combat it, “that doesn’t mean they’re going into the hands of the people who need them,” Essien told me. In 2020, Trump alarmed experts by peeling off his mask and walking into the White House just after being discharged from the hospital that treated him for COVID. Nearly two years later, Biden, to begin with, is apparently modeling some version of business as usual: The White House has already announced that he “continues to carry out the full duties of the office while in isolation” … which somehow involves the country’s chief decision maker tweeting out maskless photos (taken by someone else, presumably) of himself doing paperwork at his desk. SARS-CoV-2 has been spewing out variants and subvariants at an absolutely blistering clip, and wave after wave of infections has slammed the nation, collapsing case peaks into a never-ending plateau.

Biden, 79, began experiencing symptoms Wednesday night, according to a memo from the physician to the president Kevin O'Connor. As of Thursday the president had ...

Former president Donald Trump tested positive for Covid while in office — in October 2020 — months before the approval of any vaccines. This is the first time Biden has tested positive for Covid, though several members of his administration have contracted the virus in the last year. “I talked to him just a few minutes ago," First Lady Jill Biden told reporters of the president.

President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid and is experiencing "very mild symptoms," the White House announced on Thursday.

But in addition to that, he knows was wants to still engage and interact with people across the country.” Jean-Pierre said that “consistent with White House protocol for positive COVID cases, which goes above and beyond CDC guidance, he will continue to work in isolation until he tests negative. Biden has been vaccinated and double boosted, but at 79, he is in a higher risk category for serious complications. He has begun taking Paxlovid. Consistent with CDC guidelines, he will isolate at the White House and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time. He has been in contact with members of the White House staff by phone this morning, and will participate in his planned meetings at the White House this morning via phone and Zoom from the residence.” He had planned to travel to Pennsylvania today for a speech on the new gun safety law and to attend a fundraiser.

Fox News contributor Joey Jones suggested that President Joe Biden contracted COVID-19 as "karma" for "pretending to have cancer."

Prior to becoming president, Biden was diagnosed with multiple "localized, non-melanoma skin cancers" that were surgically removed, according to a November 2021 report by his physician. Biden said that the pollution was the reason that he and others "have cancer." Jones asserted that Biden had been "pretending to have cancer" while discussing his COVID-19 diagnosis on the Thursday edition of Fox News' Outnumbered.

So, Joe Biden has COVID. The thought of a 79-year-old infected, especially one in such a position of power, might make your mind jump to the worst possible ...

“The most important things are to rest, stay hydrated, and to have an adequate supply of ibuprofen or acetaminophen to help with body aches,” she says. It is certainly what I recommend to all of my patients, to my family members, and to my friends who are in those older age groups or have multiple comorbidities.” “What Biden has done up until this point and what he is receiving right now is actually not VIP care,” says Ranney. “This is, or should be, standard care in the United States right now. Weirdly, so may his gender and age: Women are twice as likely as men to have long COVID, and “nearly three times as many adults ages 50-59 currently have long COVID than those age 80 and older,” according to the CDC, though of course, these might just be correlations. Biden also has a booster—the death rate for folks over 65 who are vaccinated and boosted was just 0.55 per 100,000 people or 0.00055 percent. “We have a week or so before we know with certainty that he’s out of the woods.

This morning, President Biden tested positive for COVID-19. He is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and experiencing very mild symptoms. He.

He has been in contact with members of the White House staff by phone this morning, and will participate in his planned meetings at the White House this morning via phone and Zoom from the residence. He has been in contact with members of the White House staff by phone this morning, and will participate in his planned meetings at the White House this morning via phone and Zoom from the residence. He has begun taking Paxlovid. Consistent with CDC guidelines, he will isolate at the White House and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time.

Chinese President Xi Jinping wished U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday a speedy recovery from Covid, according to state media.

Xi expressed his "deepest sympathies," according to a CNBC translation of the Chinese state media report. BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping contacted U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday to wish the American leader a "speedy recovery" from Covid, according to state media. - Chinese President Xi Jinping contacted U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday to wish the American leader a speedy recovery from Covid, according to state media.

President Joe Biden's Covid-19 symptoms remained mild as of late Thursday and he continues to convalesce at the White House, a top adviser told CNN on ...

You have heard from Dr. O'Connor in the letter. First lady Jill Biden, who is considered a close contact but has tested negative, will stay in Delaware through the weekend and "following (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) guidelines," he said. But I'll check in with them (the White House medical unit) this morning, I'll check in with him this morning." Asked again whether any of Biden's symptoms were getting worse, Jha told CNN, "Nope. As of 10:00 p.m. last night, no. "Dr. O'Connor is his personal physician. Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, becoming the second US president to contract the virus during the two-and-a-half year pandemic.

President 'takes reasonable precautions against Covid but does his job', says the White House chief of staff, Ron Klain.

Jean-Pierre said the first lady, Jill Biden, was in close contact with the president, but she declined to discuss others who also might have been exposed, citing privacy reasons. Biden, in a blazer and Oxford shirt, recorded a video from the White House balcony telling people: “I’m doing well, getting a lot of work done. For more than a year, Joe Biden’s ability to avoid the coronavirus seemed to defy the odds.

Fox News's primetime stars chided Biden for contracting the virus they say he alleged couldn't be caught with a vaccine.

And then heasked why no Secret Service agents were called to testify, conveniently leaving out the part where they submitted a single text message to the committee after deleting all their exchanges from that day. He skewered the committee for not calling the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, or Washington mayor Muriel Bowser to testify about the lack of security at the Capitol while suggesting a slew of crude reinforcements that might’ve kept the mob at bay. Science, and the left’s supposed efforts to monopolize it, was a consistent theme on both Carlson’s and Hannity’s shows. He had Yale School of Public Health epidemiologist Harvey Risch on the show to tout ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as far more effective defenses against Covid – despite considerable medical assertions to the contrary. Carlson opened his hour-long show with a spirited takedown of Biden, scolding him for spreading the virus during his Middle East trip and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for dismissing the question of where the president might have contracted the virus. On Thursday night, as the Congressional hearings into the January 6 Capitol riot drew to a close, Tucker Carlson directed his outrage at a president he felt had lied and was not being held accountable for falsehoods that shook popular faith in the American democratic system.

OAN anchor Alison Steinberg said she wouldn't be surprised if, following Biden's diagnosis, the CDC started "trying to mandate hazmat suits for everyone."

Verizon confirmed this week that it will no longer include OAN as part of its channel line up and said the network had not agreed to "fair terms." "Is it a ploy to oust Biden and install the first Black what-is-a-woman president?" "Is it perhaps conveniently timed along with the impending climate crisis to prime us for upcoming future lockdowns?"

The landmark bipartisan bill is popular with voters, but recent polling shows the vast majority of them don't even know it's now a law.

They found that voters’ support for the infrastructure bill reaches 80 percent after learning about what’s in it — Democrats just have to reach them first. Voters also said they were less likely to support Republicans after viewing negative messages that called out GOP members who took credit for local project funding that came from an infrastructure bill they voted against. For instance, it found that voters don’t believe politicians’ promises that the bill will fight inflation or climate change. “We’re going to have the same problem on prescription drugs, mark my words,” Schrader said. Sixty-five percent of people felt the same about improving high-speed internet. While House Democrats collectively held over 1,000 events to promote the bill, the polling shows it didn’t resonate with most people. And that’s a huge mistake,” said Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.). “We passed a historic, bipartisan infrastructure bill. While the infrastructure bill delivered on a decadeslong call for shoring up crumbling U.S. infrastructure, its passage was overshadowed by Democratic infighting over an entirely different piece of Biden’s agenda — one that still hasn’t passed. “We were so focused on passing the next thing, we forgot to tell people about it. Some lamented that their own party hasn’t done enough to promote it. Roughly one-third of voters said they believed it was “still being worked on in Congress,” while 9 percent believed it was “not being worked on in Congress and will not be passed.” About 37 percent said they didn’t know the status of the package at all. Most people are big fans of President Joe Biden’s $550 billion infrastructure bill — except they don’t know it’s actually been passed.

The 79-year-old president is still showing only mild symptoms, according to his White House physician.

Both were being considered a close contact of the president. This, in turn, allows the immune system to better combat the infection. He has been vaccinated and boosted twice...and is feeling well enough to perform duties from the White House," Dr Fauci added. The president's doctor's assessment was echoed by his chief medical advisor, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr Anthony Fauci, who told CBS that he "fully expects" Mr Biden to "do very well". "There has been nothing in the course of his illness so far which gives me cause to alter that initial expectation," Dr O'Connor said. Dr O'Connor added that he believes that the president - who is fully vaccinated and boosted - "will respond favourably [to the medication], as most maximally protected patients do."

In a letter published by the White House, physician Kevin O'Connor wrote that Biden's symptoms "have improved."

The White House announced Biden's positive test Thursday morning. "He has been in contact with members of the White House staff by phone this morning, and will participate in his planned meetings at the White House this morning via phone and Zoom from the residence," she continued. "Consistent with CDC guidelines, he will isolate at the White House and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

President Biden had a slightly elevated temperature last night but his physician says that "his symptoms have improved" as he receives treatment after ...

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Joe Biden is pictured. President Joe Biden met with Saudi officials indoors without masks for extended periods of time, a move that may ...

“The only reason we’re not seeing more deaths and more hospitalizations is because we have this built up immunity wall from all the infections, boosters, vaccinations and combinations of all that.” Long Covid is an umbrella term for a range of mild to severe symptoms from breathing problems to brain fog and serious organ damage. “White House protocols are rooted in and sometimes exceed CDC guidance,” the White House official said, adding that people are still required to test for the virus before meeting with the president. Biden is also following the broader White House protocol for staff and reporters who test positive and are required to test negative before returning to the building. “The President is fully vaccinated and twice-boosted, so I anticipate that he will respond favorably, as most maximally protected patients do.” “The White House is a unique place to work and as such we have distinct protocols to ensure that our staff can operate safely and effectively.”

First lady Jill Biden will remain in Delaware at least through Tuesday as President Biden receives treatment for COVID-19, her office said Friday.

His pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation remain entirely normal, on room air.” Biden’s advanced age and asthma put him at higher risk from COVID-19, but he’s also quadruple-vaccinated, lowering his risk, and is on a five-day regimen of antiviral drug Paxlovid. “The President is tolerating treatment well.

A sick President Joe Biden hosted a public event as part of an effort to demonstrate that he remains healthy enough to lead the nation -- even with ...

At the afternoon event, Biden proclaimed that “gas prices have fallen every day this summer — for 38 days in a row. “He joked that his one regret was that his appetite had not changed. Earlier in the briefing, Jha gave a prosaic summary of Biden’s activities: “We FaceTimed with the president earlier today. You’re hearing directly from the physician … In his words, you are hearing directly from Dr. O’Connor, as I read out.” “I did ask him about his appetite,” Jha went on. I also spoke at length multiple times today with Dr. O’Connor. And as you all saw just a few minutes ago, the president is doing better.

White House physician says US president is taking antiviral medication, as his vital signs remain 'entirely normal'.

Biden and the White House have stressed that the president is fully vaccinated and double-boosted for COVID, which lowers his risk of serious illness. And in the meantime, thanks for your concern and keep the faith. Despite the COVID diagnosis, Biden has continued to carry out his duties as president. To take the Paxlovid, Biden has had to stop taking two other medications that lower cholesterol and blood pressure. At 79 years old, the president falls into that category, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “His temperature has remained normal since then,” the doctor’s memo reads.