Joe Biden

The White House says the 79-year-old President is experiencing "very mild symptoms" and is taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug designed to reduce the ...

"Mr Biden 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 said. Mr Biden has a runny nose and fatigue with an occasional dry cough, his physician Kevin O'Connor said on Thursday in a letter to the White House press secretary after the President tested positive for COVID-19. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the 79-year-old was experiencing "mild symptoms" and had begun taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug designed to reduce the severity of the disease.

Joe Biden, the oldest person ever to serve as president of the United States, has tested positive for COVID-19.

and I’m doing well and getting a lot of work done and going to continue to get it done,” he said. Get a note directly from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. “Hey folks, I guess you’ve heard, this morning I tested positive for COVID. But I’ve been double vaccinated and double boosted. Biden had last tested negative on Tuesday. In a video tweet, Biden said he was doing well and urged Americans to “keep the faith.” Four months after receiving his second booster shot, the 79-year-old has become the second consecutive president after Donald Trump to test positive, and the latest in a long line of administration officials to become infected this year.

The president is isolating at the White House and will continue to work until he tests negative. He has also begun taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid.

She said Biden “will isolate at the White House and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time. Up to this point, Biden’s ability to avoid the virus seemed to defy the odds, even with the testing procedures in place for those expected to be in close contact with him. “I know there are questions about whether we should gather here tonight because of COVID,” he said.

The antiviral treatment, which has proven effective in reducing the risk of hospitalisation or death, was added to the PBS in May. Here's what you need to ...

"A brief return of symptoms may be part of the natural history of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) infection in some persons, independent of treatment with Paxlovid and regardless of vaccination status. The trial of 2,246 unvaccinated adults (who had mild to moderate COVID-19) found that the treatment "resulted in a risk of progression to COVID-19 that was 89 per cent lower than the risk with placebo, without evident safety concerns". According to the Australian Department of Health, treatment with Paxlovid "should be commenced as soon as possible after a diagnosis of COVID-19 and within five days of symptom onset".

US President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagi...

The first lady, who was wearing a mask, said she tested negative earlier in the day. Jean-Pierre said Biden had last tested negative on Tuesday, and he will stay isolated until he tests negative again. "He's doing fine," she said.

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.

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.