The President of the United States, who is 79 years old, “will resume strict confinement measures,” his personal doctor announced on Saturday in a letter broadcast by the White House.
Le Monde with AFP
The President of the United States Joe Biden was again diagnosed positive at COVVI-19 Saturday July 30 without feeling symptoms. He will return to isolation to “protect” his entourage, announced his personal doctor in a letter broadcast by the White House.
The president, who is 79 years old, “was tested positive on Saturday morning according to an antigenic test” and “will resume strict containment measures,” wrote Dr. Kevin O’Connor, according to which The cases of “rebound” of positivity are frequent in people treated at the Paxlovid, the anti-Cavid pill of Pfizer.
As Mr. Biden had been tested negative Tuesday evening, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning and Friday morning, “this is a rebound positivity”, according to Mr. Biden’s doctor. “The president did not feel like the symptoms re-emergence and continues to feel completely well,” he added. “There is therefore no reason to resume treatment at this stage”, but Mr. Biden, the oldest president ever elected in the United States, will remain under observation, he continued.
m. Biden had been tested positive on July 21 with “very light symptoms” and came out of his confinement on Wednesday, after negative tests.
fully vaccinated
The president, fully vaccinated and who has received two doses of recall, wishes to “protect all those (…) who must work near him”, whether they are the staff of the White House, his guards of the body or his entourage, concluded Dr O’Connor.
The Paxlovid is an antiviral treatment which acts by reducing the capacity of the virus to replicate, thus slowing down the progression of the disease. It must be taken in the first days after the appearance of symptoms to be effective. It is recommended in the United States for people at risk of developing a serious case of the disease, a category in which between the American president because of his age.
Joe Biden’s predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, announced on October 2, 2020 on Twitter that he was diagnosed positive at COVVI-19. He had been evacuated by helicopter from the White House to the military hospital of Walter Reed, and had been treated there for three nights.