WASHINGTON D.C. – Recently, President Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday and will once isolate again, although his symptoms have not come back, said Dr. Kevin C. O’Connor, White House doctor.
President Biden first tested positive for the Covid-19 on July 21 and experienced a sore throat, runny nose, cough, body aches and fatigue. After five days of isolation, he tested negative on Tuesday evening and returned t the Oval Office on Wednesday, declaring that his relatively mild case demonstrated how much progress had been made in fighting the virus that has killed more than one million Americans.
However, doctors were watching for signs of a rebound case and made sure to keep testing him every day. He tested negative on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday before receiving a positive antigen result on Saturday morning.
President Biden tested positive again on Saturday morning has become the latest example of a “rebound case” after taking the Paxlovid treatment that has otherwise been credited with broadly impressive results in fighting the virus and suppressing its worst effects.
The President has experienced no reemergence of symptoms and continues to feel quite well.” Dr. Kevin C. O’Connor, the White House physician, said in a memo released by the WH Press office. “This being the case there is no reason to reinitiate treatment at this time, but we will obviously continue close observation.”
The “rebound” positivity,” as Dr. O’Connor termed it, meant that Mr. Biden was forced to resume – strict isolation procedures in keeping with medical advice. The White House announced that the Presidenr would no longer travel to his home in Wilmington, Delaware., on Sunday as planned nor make a scheduled visit to Michigan on Tuesday to promote newly passed legislation supporting the domestic semi-conductor industry.
President Biden played down the development and wrote on twitter “Folks, today I tested positive for Covid again. This happens with a small minority of folks. I have got no symptoms but I am gong to isolate for the safety of everyone around me. I am still at work and will be back on the road soon.”
The White House later posted a video of the President on the Truman Balcony with his dog Commander and he appeared well. “I am feeling fine,” he said. “Everything’s good.”
Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the White House’s Covid-19 response coordinator, told reporters when Mr. Biden first tested positive that by looking at Twitter, “it feels like everybody has rebound, but it turns out there’s actually clinical data” suggesting otherwise. Moreover, he said, serious illness, rebound or no rebound and that’s why he was offered it and that’s why the President took it.
