His physician, Dr. Kevin O\u2019Connor, said the president has a runny nose, fatigue, and an occasional dry cough. Biden is taking the antiviral therapy Paxlovid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAll is well, they say:\u00a0<\/strong>The White House made an effort on Thursday to show that Biden \u2014 whose age has prompted questions about his health despite his vaccination status \u2014 continues to carry out his presidential duties.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s Twitter account shared a photo of him working at a desk in the White House residence.<\/p>\n
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Biden would call into meetings by phone or Zoom.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe president has been working from the residence like so many of us have during this pandemic,\u201d she said at Thursday\u2019s briefing.<\/p>\n
White House officials on Thursday used President Biden\u2019s positive test for COVID-19 to stress the importance of getting vaccinated against the virus as a new variant spread across the country.<\/p>\n
\n- \u201cBecause the president is fully vaccinated, double boosted, his risk of serious illness is dramatically lower,\u201d Dr.\u00a0Ashish Jha, the White House\u2019s coronavirus coordinator, told reporters at a press briefing.<\/li>\n
- \u201cWe have worked very hard over the last 18 months to make sure we have plenty of vaccines, plenty of therapies, that people can get tested on a regular basis\u2026 and we all know from medicine that early treatment is always better,\u201d Jha added.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
White House stresses vaccines and treatments<\/strong>: When asked about the president\u2019s risk of serious illness and his condition, Jha repeatedly returned to the importance of\u00a0Biden\u00a0having gotten two vaccine shots, plus two booster shots to guard against the virus.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThe good news is \u2014 and this was always the point \u2014 the good news is his immune system is very well protected given the four vaccine shots he\u2019s gotten. He\u2019s getting treatment. He\u2019s feeling fine. His words,\u201d Jha said.<\/p>\n
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Takeaway for the public:\u00a0<\/strong>Jha urged Americans, especially those over 50, to get their shot to reduce their risk of serious symptoms as BA.5, a subvariant of the omicron strain of the coronavirus that is driving an uptick in cases across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President\u00a0Biden\u00a0in a video message on Thursday...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50651,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50648\/revisions\/50651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}