Joe Biden, the oldest person ever to serve as president of the US, has tested positive for Covid-19, is experiencing mild symptoms and will continue working but in isolation, the White House said on Thursday.
Biden, 79, has a runny nose, fatigue and an occasional dry cough, symptoms which he began to experience late on Wednesday, White House physician Kevin O'Connor said in a note released on Thursday. Biden has begun taking the antiviral treatment Paxlovid, O'Connor said.
Biden became ill at a time when his administration is grappling with soaring inflation, global supply challenges, mass shootings and Russia's land assault on Ukraine. But Paxlovid has in some cases been associated with rebound infections, in which patients improve quickly and Test negative after a five-day course of the drug, with symptoms returning days later.
Jha said Biden will stop taking Eliquis and the statin Creator while on his Paxlovid treatment to avoid a negative interaction between the drugs.“Sometimes the choice to mitigate one thing may elevate risk for something else. I am hopeful that the president will get through Covid-19, be helped by Paxlovid, and soon get back on the medication that reduces his risk from atrial fibrillation,” he said.
More than 1 million people have died from Covid-19 in the US. Most of those deaths, some 600,000, happened after Biden took office in January 2021 at the peak of a major wave of the disease.Biden set up strict Covid-19 safety protocols at the White House, urged Americans to take the virus seriously and campaigned for everyone to get fully vaccinated.
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