Washington: Joe BidenThe White House said on Thursday that the oldest person ever to serve as President of the United States has tested positive for COVID-19, is experiencing mild symptoms and will continue to work, but isolate. in, the White House said on Thursday.
White House physician Kevin O’Connor said in a note released Thursday that 79-year-old Biden has a runny nose, fatigue and sometimes a dry cough, symptoms of which he began to experience late Wednesday. O’Connor said Biden has begun taking the antiviral treatment paxlovid.
Fully vaccinated and extended twice, Biden said he is “doing well” in a video posted to his Twitter account. In the 21-second clip, he also said that he is “working a lot” and will continue with his duties.
A picture on his Twitter account shows him smiling, wearing a blazer and sitting at a desk with papers.
White House COVID coordinator, Dr Ashish Jha, said Biden’s oxygen levels were normal and the president would isolate for five days and return to public events once a negative Covid test test was conducted.
Biden fell ill at a time when his administration grapples with rising inflation, global supply challenges, mass shootings and Russia’s land attack on Ukraine.
His illness forced the cancellation of a trip to Pennsylvania, where Biden intended to plan to ask Congress for $37 billion for crime prevention programs.
The White House provided an unusually detailed account of the president’s morning activities, including a series of phone calls to political aides, and said those who had come in close contact with Biden were told about his illness. was going.
vice president Kamala Harris A White House official said Tuesday was in close contact with Biden. Biden’s Chief of Staff, Ron KlainTold MSNBC that he was too, but added that so far no one connected to the president’s case has tested positive.
paxlovid
Pfizer Inc. is taking the antiviral drug paxlovid that Joe Biden is taking, shown to reduce the risk of serious illness by about 90% in high-risk patients when given within the first five days of infection.
But Paxlovid has been associated with rebound infections in some cases, in which patients improve quickly and test negative after a five-day course of the drug, with symptoms returning a few days later.
Bruce Farber, chief of infectious diseases at Northwell Health in New York, who is not treating the president, said PaxLovid is the only treatment Biden will get unless his symptoms worsen.
“Elderly people are at greater risk for developing complications from COVID,” Farber said. “If you’ve been vaccinated and doubled, it’s dramatically less, so I hope he does very well.”
At Biden’s final physical exam in November 2021, doctors revealed that the president has atrial fibrillation, a common irregular heartbeat for which he takes Eliquis, a drug to prevent blood clots and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. A drug designed for
Jha said Biden will stop taking Eliquis and the statin Crestor during his Paxlovid treatment to avoid negative interactions between the drugs.
Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at Yale University, said doctors had to balance the risks in the drug.
“Sometimes the choice to reduce one thing can increase the risk for something else. I hope the president will get through Covid, be helped by PaxLovid, and soon be back on the drug that is atrial.” lowers their risk of fibrillation,” he said.
no official Washington immunity
Several members of Biden’s administration in Washington and other senior figures have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent months, including harris and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, have both since tested negative and resumed work.
While many Americans have moved on from the strict precautions of the early months of the pandemic, returning to offices and schools and resuming summer travel, the virus continues to spread rapidly.
According to CDC data, US cases with the ba.5 subvariant have increased by more than 25% in the past month.
Avoiding the immune protection afforded by vaccination or prior infection, BA.5 has been the dominant subtype in the United States since at least early July and has driven a surge of new infections globally.
More than 1 million people have died from Covid in the United States. Most of those deaths, some 600,000, occurred after Biden took office in January 2021 at the peak of a major wave of the disease.
‘Get vaccinated now’
Biden established strict COVID-19 safety protocols at the White House, urged Americans to take the virus seriously and campaigned for full vaccination for all.
The White House has said they are regularly tested for the disease and anyone who meets or travels with them is tested beforehand. Biden last tested negative on Tuesday.
He has stopped wearing a mask at public events in recent months, and the White House dropped the mask requirement before his March 1 State of the Union address.
Asked by Reuters on Wednesday what the country should do with rising Covid cases, Biden encouraged vaccination for those who had not yet received the vaccine.
“It is not in their interest or in the public interest not to be vaccinated,” Biden told reporters at Joint Base Andrews. “We have the ability to control it. They should get vaccinated now.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping State broadcaster CCTV reported Friday that it wished Biden a speedy recovery.
Biden joins a roster of world leaders who have contracted Covid since the pandemic began in early 2020.
A month before he lost to Biden in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump He got the virus. He, his wife Melania and other White House staff contracted it after an event for Supreme Court Justice Amy Connie Barrett in September 2020.
Trump, then 74, was hospitalized on October 2, 2020, and underwent aggressive treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in a Washington suburb. His low oxygen levels worried his medical team.
Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency medicine specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, wrote on Twitter: “Biden is not remotely in the same risk category as Trump. He has had 4 doses of the vaccine, PaxLovid, and possibly a variant that causes less severe disease. causes. He doesn’t even have obesity.”
White House physician Kevin O’Connor said in a note released Thursday that 79-year-old Biden has a runny nose, fatigue and sometimes a dry cough, symptoms of which he began to experience late Wednesday. O’Connor said Biden has begun taking the antiviral treatment paxlovid.
Fully vaccinated and extended twice, Biden said he is “doing well” in a video posted to his Twitter account. In the 21-second clip, he also said that he is “working a lot” and will continue with his duties.
A picture on his Twitter account shows him smiling, wearing a blazer and sitting at a desk with papers.
White House COVID coordinator, Dr Ashish Jha, said Biden’s oxygen levels were normal and the president would isolate for five days and return to public events once a negative Covid test test was conducted.
Biden fell ill at a time when his administration grapples with rising inflation, global supply challenges, mass shootings and Russia’s land attack on Ukraine.
His illness forced the cancellation of a trip to Pennsylvania, where Biden intended to plan to ask Congress for $37 billion for crime prevention programs.
The White House provided an unusually detailed account of the president’s morning activities, including a series of phone calls to political aides, and said those who had come in close contact with Biden were told about his illness. was going.
vice president Kamala Harris A White House official said Tuesday was in close contact with Biden. Biden’s Chief of Staff, Ron KlainTold MSNBC that he was too, but added that so far no one connected to the president’s case has tested positive.
paxlovid
Pfizer Inc. is taking the antiviral drug paxlovid that Joe Biden is taking, shown to reduce the risk of serious illness by about 90% in high-risk patients when given within the first five days of infection.
But Paxlovid has been associated with rebound infections in some cases, in which patients improve quickly and test negative after a five-day course of the drug, with symptoms returning a few days later.
Bruce Farber, chief of infectious diseases at Northwell Health in New York, who is not treating the president, said PaxLovid is the only treatment Biden will get unless his symptoms worsen.
“Elderly people are at greater risk for developing complications from COVID,” Farber said. “If you’ve been vaccinated and doubled, it’s dramatically less, so I hope he does very well.”
At Biden’s final physical exam in November 2021, doctors revealed that the president has atrial fibrillation, a common irregular heartbeat for which he takes Eliquis, a drug to prevent blood clots and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. A drug designed for
Jha said Biden will stop taking Eliquis and the statin Crestor during his Paxlovid treatment to avoid negative interactions between the drugs.
Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at Yale University, said doctors had to balance the risks in the drug.
“Sometimes the choice to reduce one thing can increase the risk for something else. I hope the president will get through Covid, be helped by PaxLovid, and soon be back on the drug that is atrial.” lowers their risk of fibrillation,” he said.
no official Washington immunity
Several members of Biden’s administration in Washington and other senior figures have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent months, including harris and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, have both since tested negative and resumed work.
While many Americans have moved on from the strict precautions of the early months of the pandemic, returning to offices and schools and resuming summer travel, the virus continues to spread rapidly.
According to CDC data, US cases with the ba.5 subvariant have increased by more than 25% in the past month.
Avoiding the immune protection afforded by vaccination or prior infection, BA.5 has been the dominant subtype in the United States since at least early July and has driven a surge of new infections globally.
More than 1 million people have died from Covid in the United States. Most of those deaths, some 600,000, occurred after Biden took office in January 2021 at the peak of a major wave of the disease.
‘Get vaccinated now’
Biden established strict COVID-19 safety protocols at the White House, urged Americans to take the virus seriously and campaigned for full vaccination for all.
The White House has said they are regularly tested for the disease and anyone who meets or travels with them is tested beforehand. Biden last tested negative on Tuesday.
He has stopped wearing a mask at public events in recent months, and the White House dropped the mask requirement before his March 1 State of the Union address.
Asked by Reuters on Wednesday what the country should do with rising Covid cases, Biden encouraged vaccination for those who had not yet received the vaccine.
“It is not in their interest or in the public interest not to be vaccinated,” Biden told reporters at Joint Base Andrews. “We have the ability to control it. They should get vaccinated now.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping State broadcaster CCTV reported Friday that it wished Biden a speedy recovery.
Biden joins a roster of world leaders who have contracted Covid since the pandemic began in early 2020.
A month before he lost to Biden in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump He got the virus. He, his wife Melania and other White House staff contracted it after an event for Supreme Court Justice Amy Connie Barrett in September 2020.
Trump, then 74, was hospitalized on October 2, 2020, and underwent aggressive treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in a Washington suburb. His low oxygen levels worried his medical team.
Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency medicine specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, wrote on Twitter: “Biden is not remotely in the same risk category as Trump. He has had 4 doses of the vaccine, PaxLovid, and possibly a variant that causes less severe disease. causes. He doesn’t even have obesity.”