First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday and President Biden’s test results came back negative, according to the White House.
Jill Biden, 72, “is currently experiencing only mild symptoms,” her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, said in a statement.
“She will remain at her home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware,” Alexander added.
The first lady, who previously received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as a couple of booster shots, has tested positive for the coronavirus at least twice before.
Joe Biden, 80, was tested for COVID-19 on Monday night following the first lady’s positive test, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
“The President tested negative. The president will carry out tests at a regular rate this week and monitor the symptoms,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
Jill Biden is experiencing “mild symptoms”, according to the White House.AFP via Getty Images
The first lady accompanied her husband to Florida on Saturday, where the couple toured the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Idalia. They were joined on the ground by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and met with several first responders, federal personnel and local officials during the brief visit.
The Bidens ventured home to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, after the trip to Florida, and the president spent part of Sunday at Mass at St. Edmond Roman Catholic Church.
President Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Monday night. AFP via Getty Images
The president left Delaware early Monday, Labor Day, to speak at an American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) rally in Philadelphia.
He is scheduled to travel to India from September 7 to 10 for the Group of 20 Summit, a trip that will include a stop in Hanoi, Vietnam.
The first lady’s first positive COVID-19 test came on August 16, 2022, after developing “cold-like symptoms” near the end of the first family’s stay on Kiawah Island, South Carolina. .
The first couple spent the weekend in Florida and Delaware, before President Biden visited Philadelphia on Monday and then returned to the White House.REUTERS
He once again tested positive for a “rebound” case of the virus on August 24, 2022, but experienced “no recurrence of symptoms.”
Joe Biden, who has also been vaccinated against the virus at least four times, tested positive for COVID-19 on July 21, 2022, after returning from a trip to the Middle East.
The president was treated with the antiviral drug Paxlovid and experienced “mild symptoms,” including cough, runny nose and fatigue, according to his doctor, Dr. Kevin O’Connor.
He was cleared to travel 17 days after testing positive.
The president will conduct tests this week and “monitor for symptoms,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.AFP via Getty Images
Doctors in Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, New York and Texas have detected a new variant of COVID-19, called the Pirola variant, but experts aren’t sure if it’s more transmissible or deadlier than other variants.
Also known as BA.2.86, Pirola is a highly mutated variant of the Omicron strain of the coronavirus, which emerged in 2021 and became the dominant strain in the US.
“When Omicron arrived in the winter of 2021, there was a huge spike in COVID-19 cases because it was very different from the Delta variant and evaded immunity from both natural infection and vaccination,” said Dr. Scott Roberts. , specialist in infectious diseases. in a Yale Medicine bulletin.
The bulletin states that “there are some reasons for concern, as this variant…has more than 30 mutations in its spike protein,” referring to the proteins on the surface of the virus that allow it to enter and infect human cells.
“It’s remarkable such a high number of mutations,” Roberts said. “When we went from XBB.1.5 to EG.5, it was maybe one or two mutations. But these massive changes, which we also saw from Delta to Omicron, are worrisome.”
The White House did not specify which variant the first lady has been infected with.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week projected an acceleration in new COVID-19 hospitalizations over the next month, after five consecutive weeks of increasing virus-related hospital admissions.
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