President Joe Biden won the updated COVID-19 vaccine and annual flu vaccine, the White House announced Saturday.
White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a note that Biden won any of the injections on Friday. O’Connor said Biden, 80, was also vaccinated several weeks ago against the respiratory disease known as RSV.
“As we approach flu and flu season, the President encourages all Americans to follow his lead and make sure their doctor or pharmacist is fully vaccinated,” O’Connor wrote.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the new COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month for anyone 6 months of age or older. The severity of the COVID-19 pandemic has diminished, but there are still thousands of hospitalizations and many deaths in the United States each week.
Experts worry that immunity from past vaccines and infections will disappear in many other people and that a new shot could save many lives.
First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month but showed mild symptoms.
The CDC recommends that other people with COVID-19 and in isolation wait to get vaccinated until symptoms and isolation rules are followed. Children and adults with multisystem inflammatory syndrome deserve to wait to get vaccinated until they recover from the disease and 90 days have passed since then. diagnosis, according to the CDC.
Biden tested positive for COVID-19 in July 2022 and just over three days after being allowed out of coronavirus isolation. The second incident was a rare case of “rebound” infection after treatment with an antiviral drug.