President Joe Biden examined negative for Covid Saturday however will continue to isolate till he tests negative a second time, his doctor mentioned in a letter.
“The President continues to feel very well,” White House doctor Dr. Kevin O’Connor wrote, every week after Biden, 79, examined constructive once more in a “rebound” case. “This morning, his SARS-CoV-2 antigen testing was negative.”
He will continue “his strict isolation measures pending a second negative test as previously described,” O’Connor added.
Biden, who’s totally vaccinated and twice boosted, first examined constructive for Covid on July 21 throughout a routine take a look at and was handled with the antiviral Paxlovid. The president had examined negative a number of day in a row earlier than he examined constructive once more final Saturday in what O’Connor described as a “rebound” case.
O’Connor mentioned in a letter final week that Biden was doing nicely and he wouldn’t re-initiate remedy.
A small minority of people that take Paxlovid to deal with Covid see a rebound case. Around 1% to 2% of individuals taking Paxlovid in Pfizer’s clinical trial examined constructive for the coronavirus after having examined negative. Rebound charges are round 5% among the many tens of hundreds of people that’ve taken the drug in real-life settings, White House Covid response coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, has mentioned.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to Biden, who had Covid in June, additionally mentioned he went by way of Paxlovid rebound.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned of the attainable recurrences in May, and mentioned that individuals who take a look at constructive once more should still be contagious and may restart isolation for at the least 5 days.
