The President, just returning from a several-days overseas trip to the Middle East, has tested positive for COVID-19.
The White House has confirmed that the president, vaxxed and twice boosted, has "very mild symptoms" and is expected to continue working during isolation. The president has taken the anti-viral drug Paxlovid to guard against serious COVID illness. The president's symptoms have included runny nose and dry cough.
READ: Remembering President Trump's COVID illness.
The White House has decided to get out front of the news, being transparent in the moment.
The president's wife, First Lady Jill Biden, speaking to reporters in Detroit after a visit to a Horizons National summer learning program held at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT said of her husband's condition, "He's fine."
The president, age 79, co-signed his wife's comments shortly thereafter tweeting in Joe Biden fashion, "I'm fine, folks."
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While the White House thinks it's a good thing for America to see the president still doing the job for the American people, former COVID testing czar, Admiral Brett Giroir, speaking on Fox News, recommends the president get rest.
"I would not push him too hard", said Giroir on whether the president should continue working. "Give him so time to recover. He deserves that just like everyone else in the country."
Giroir also suggested that the president needs to be closely monitored as the drug Paxlovid may interfere with the president's anticoagulant (blood thinner) drug he takes for his heart arrythmia.
Giroir also had advice for First Lady Jill Biden. "She should have a N-95 mask, not just a surgical mask", he said.
The first lady has not tested positive for COVID.
It is expected that more information will be revealed during today's White House press briefing, scheduled at 2:00 p.m.
No remarks, to date, from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the president who has been the leading medical expert since the COVID pandemic began.
This is a developing story.
**Updated ** 2:31 p.m., 7.25.22 - Statement from Biden physician
Dr. Kevin O'Connor states that the president's symptoms "have now almost completely resolved", and that the president is "responding to treatment as expected." Read entire statement here.
**Updated ** 2:55 p.m. 7.21.22 - White House briefing
President Biden's oxygen level is normal.
No word on what virus strain the president has.
WH cannot pinpoint where the president may have gotten COVID; contact tracing is underway.
Close contacts encouraged to reveal whether they have symptoms.
No change to staffing protocols, or staff reduction.
President felt normal up to this point, per Dr. Ashish Jha.
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