“His primary symptoms, though less troublesome, now include sore throat, rhinorrhea [a runny nose], loose cough and body aches,” the presidential physician said.
Biden virtually attended a meeting with his economic team on Friday morning.Biden, 79, is the oldest-ever American president and his advanced age puts him at elevated risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19, though he has received four shots of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, reducing the risk, and is being treated with antiviral drug Paxlovid.
He managed to evade the virus for more than 2 1/2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, including by campaigning for president largely from his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
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