President Joe Biden once more examined constructive for COVID-19 on Monday.
In a letter launched by the White Home, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s doctor, mentioned the president is “feeling nicely” as he begins his week.
“Given his rebound positivity, which we reported Saturday, we continued every day monitoring,” O’Connor wrote. “This morning, as may very well be anticipated, his SARS-CoV-2 antigen testing remained constructive.”
The letter additionally acknowledged Biden will proceed “strict isolation measures as beforehand described.”
The New York Occasions’ Peter Baker mentionedBiden is having “lingering minor signs,” together with a “dry cough and sniffles,” based on the White Home.
HuffPost has reached out to The White Home for extra data.
Biden examined constructive for COVID-19 a second time on Saturday. He first examined constructive for the virus on July 21 after which recovered and examined destructive a number of days later.
O’Connor mentioned Biden’s signs when he first examined constructive included a runny nostril, fatigue and a dry cough.
In a memo despatched Saturday, O’Connor described Biden’s second constructive analysis as a “rebound” case affecting a small share of people handled with Paxlovid, an antiviral medicine that stops the coronavirus from replicating within the physique.
“After testing destructive on Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning, and Friday morning, the President examined constructive late Saturday morning, by antigen testing,” O’Connor mentioned. “This in actual fact represents ‘rebound positivity.’”
To keep away from the unfold of COVID-19, the CDC advises adults age 65 and older to get their COVID-19 vaccine and boosters, restrict in-person interactions, social distance when doable and wash their fingers, amongst different issues.
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