Biden’s doctor, Kevin O’Connor, said in a statement that US President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19.
“The SARS-CoV-2 antibody test result came back negative this morning. As a precaution, the president will continue to follow strict isolation measures until the test result is negative for the second time, as stated earlier,” he said.
“The President is still doing very well,” O’Connor added.
More than two weeks have passed since the President of the United States was infected. Biden is known to be infected with a subspecies of the omicron BA.5 strain. He passed his first positive test on July 21. According to the doctor, Biden caught the disease easily: He had mild symptoms such as a runny nose, fatigue, fever and cough.
The politician was prescribed a five-day course of Paxlovid, after which several coronavirus tests came back negative.
Minister He thanked Americans and doctors who followed his treatment. The American leader said that the symptoms of the disease were not so significant, mainly due to previous vaccinations, and he was able to work “without a break” for the past five days. She returned to full-time work on July 27.
“Tab” theory
However, on July 30, the president again passed a positive test, which doctors explained by the theory of “rebound” – in a small percentage of patients, repeated manifestations of symptoms or positive results can be noted after negative test results. Cases of relapse are often nearly asymptomatic, but patients are forced to continue self-isolation as directed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to O’Connor, Biden only experienced a mild cough after the “bounce.”
Critics for The New York Times registeredHe said Biden was in trouble because of a new coronavirus test positive, as the re-quarantine undermined the White House chief’s efforts to turn the disease into a “positive story”.
Biden’s isolation confirms the unfortunate fact that the pandemic in the US has not gone away, despite the drop in the death toll from the coronavirus. The curfew also prevented the president from making a series of domestic trips that could increase the politician’s waning approval rating. Biden’s job approval rating for the first time, according to the latest Gallup study fallen Below 40% and reached 38%.
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Preventive measures
Biden became the 46th President of the United States in 2021. The oldest episode in the country’s history: it will turn 80 in November.
The politician took careful precautions to avoid contracting a coronavirus infection. He completed the entire vaccination process and later received two booster needles. He received the first two doses of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine before he took office in January 2021 and was then revaccinated in September and March.
At a time when the pandemic was just beginning in 2020, he avoided many of the events usually held during the election campaign. The politician also remained under tight lock during his first months in office.
In July, Biden announced that he had cancer due to environmental pollution in the region where he grew up. “We had to turn on the windshield wipers to literally wash the oil stains off the windshield. [автомобиля]. That’s why I and many of the people I grew up with are cancer patients. That’s why for a long time Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the country.”
Later, the White House clarified that talking about the cancer discovered in him does not mean that the politician is currently suffering from it.
According to reports from Doctor O’Connor, Biden suffers from atrial fibrillation, hyperlipidemia, gastroesophageal reflux, seasonal allergies, and mild sensory neuropathy in the legs.