WASHINGTON (AP) — U. S. President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, just over three days after he was allowed out of coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case. frequent “recovery” after treatment with an anti-viral drug.
White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a letter that Biden “has experienced a recurrence of symptoms and continues to feel quite well. “
According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rules, Biden will return to isolation for at least five days. The company says most recovery cases remain mild and no serious illnesses have been reported in this period.
Biden’s positive check came just hours after the White House announced a presidential stopover in Michigan next Tuesday to mark the passage of a bill to promote high-tech domestic manufacturing. Biden was also scheduled to travel to his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday. tomorrow, where First Lady Jill Biden was staying while the president tested positive. Both trips were canceled because Biden returned to solitary confinement.
Biden, 79, was treated with the antiviral drug Paxlovid and tested negative for the virus on Tuesday and Wednesday. He then allowed himself to leave the isolation dressed in a mask inside. His positive tests place him among the minority of those prescribed medication to delight in a case of rebound of the virus.
When Biden tested negative, he resumed holding indoor in-person events and meetings with White House staff and wore a mask, according to CDC guidelines. But the president took off his mask in his speeches Thursday and a meeting with CEOs at the White House. complex.
Asked why Biden gave the impression that he was breaking CDC protocols, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “They were socially distant. They were far apart. So we made sure they were safely combined in this scenario. “
Regulators are still reading the prevalence and virulence of rebound cases, but the CDC warned doctors in May that it was reported that this happened within two days to eight days after an initial negative test for the virus.
“The limited data that was obtained lately from case reports suggests that other people treated with Paxlovid who are experiencing a COVID-19 rebound have had mild illness. There are no reports of serious illness,” the firm said at the time.
When Biden was first released from isolation on Wednesday, O’Connor said the president would “increase his testing rate” to detect any possible resurgence of the virus.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told reporters Monday that “clinical data suggest that between 5 and 8 percent of other people recovered” after treatment with Paxlovid.
Paxlovid has been shown to especially reduce serious illness and death in those most vulnerable to COVID-19. USA. USA The health government has encouraged other people who test positive to consult their doctor or pharmacist to see if they deserve to be prescribed the remedy, despite the threat of rebound.
Biden is fully vaccinated, after receiving two doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine in a while before taking office, a first booster in September and one more dose on March 30.
While patients who recovered from previous variants of COVID-19 tended to have the highest degrees of immunity to long-term reinfection for 90 days, Jha said the BA. 5 subvariant that inflamed Biden turned out to be more “immuno-evasive. “
“We have noticed that many other people are reinfected within 90 days,” he said, adding that the government still has no knowledge about how long those who have recovered from the BA. 5 strain are reinfection.
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