{"id":50917,"date":"2022-07-30T13:09:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T20:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50917"},"modified":"2022-07-30T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T20:09:30","slug":"biden-reinitiating-strict-isolation-procedures-after-positive-covid-test-doctor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50917","title":{"rendered":"Biden reinitiating \u2018strict isolation procedures\u2019 after positive COVID test, doctor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden will \u201creinitiate strict isolation procedures\u201d after he tested positive for COVID-19 following several days of returning negative tests, his physician, Kevin O&#8217;Connor, said in a letter on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs described last week, acknowledging the potential for so-called \u2018rebound\u2019 COVID positivity observed in a small percentage of patients treated with PAXLOVID, the President increased his testing cadence, both to protect people around him and to assure early detection of any return of viral replication,\u201d O&#8217;Connor wrote to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Biden tested positive again late Saturday morning after testing negative multiple times beginning Tuesday evening, O\u2019Connor said, adding that &#8220;this in fact represents the &#8216;rebound&#8217; positivity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden will \u201creinitiate strict isolation&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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-50917","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\/50917","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=50917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50918,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50917\/revisions\/50918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}