President Biden examined optimistic for COVID-19 once more on Sunday and stays in isolation after the White Home detected a “rebound positivity” on Saturday.
The president’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, mentioned in a memorandum that the president continues to “really feel properly” and “will proceed to conduct the enterprise of the American individuals from the Government Residence” whereas beneath self-quarantine.
Mr. Biden, 79, who emerged from 5 days of self-quarantine after testing destructive for the virus on Tuesday, examined optimistic for the virus on Saturday after receiving 4 back-to-back destructive exams.
Dr. O’Connor mentioned Saturday’s take a look at outcomes signify “‘rebound positivity,’” which he mentioned can happen in “a small proportion of sufferers handled with Paxlovid.”
He mentioned the president “skilled no reemergence of signs” regardless of the optimistic take a look at, and that there was “no cause to reinitiate remedy presently.”
Mr. Biden, who’s totally vaccinated and twice boosted, first examined optimistic on a speedy antigen take a look at multiple week in the past. The consequence was confirmed by a extra delicate PCR take a look at.
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The White Home introduced Saturday that the president will not journey to Michigan on Tuesday, the place he supposed to ship remarks on Congress’ latest passage of its $280 billion know-how spending invoice, given the optimistic take a look at.
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