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LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 during a vacation in Las Vegas on Wednesday and has “mild symptoms,” adding “general discomfort” from the infection, the White House said.
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Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden would travel home to Delaware, where he would “isolate himself and continue to fully exercise all of his duties during this period. “The news was first shared through UnidosUS President and CEO Janet Murguía, who told visitors to the group’s conference in Las Vegas that the president had sent his apologies and that he might simply not attend because he had tested positive for the virus.
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Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, said in a memo that Biden “presented this afternoon with upper respiratory symptoms, adding rhinorrhea (runny nose) and nonproductive cough, with general malaise. “Biden prescribed the antiviral drug Paxlovid and he took his first dose, O’Connor said.
Biden is scheduled to speak at the Unidos event in Las Vegas on Wednesday afternoon as part of an effort to rally the Hispanic electorate ahead of the November election. Instead, he departed for the airport to fly to Delaware, where he had already planned to spend a long weekend at his home in Rehoboth Beach.
Biden cautiously boarded Air Force One and told reporters traveling with him: “I feel good. »The president did wear a mask when he boarded Air Force One.
The president had previously visited the Original Lindo Michoacán restaurant in Las Vegas, where he greeted visitors and sat down for an interview with Univision.
Biden has been vaccinated and is receiving his annual COVID-19 booster dose. The vaccines have proven to be highly effective at limiting severe illness and death from the virus, which has killed more than a million people in the United States since the pandemic began. in 2020. Se Paxlovid has been shown to reduce the dangers of severe illness and death from COVID-19 when prescribed in the first few days of an infection, but it has also been linked to rebound infections, where the virus reappears a few days later. has disappeared.
The last time Biden tested positive for COVID-19 twice was in the summer of 2022, when he had a number one case and a rebound case of the virus.
Health officials have reported a recent increase in emergency room visits and hospitalizations due to COVID-19. There has also been a pronounced increase in positive control effects in much of the country, in the southwestern United States.
Associated Press writers Josh Boak, Stephanie Nano and Zeke Miller contributed.
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