Biden's Covid symptoms improving 'significantly', doctor says
"His main symptom now is a sore throat," said Dr. Kevin O'Connor, the White House physician, in a letter on Sunday.
President Joe Biden's Covid symptoms are "significantly improving," his doctor said in a letter Sunday.
Dr. Kevin O'Connor, the White House physician, said the president completed his third full day of treatment with the antiviral drug Paxlovid on Saturday and that his "predominant symptom" was only a sore throat. Biden, who tested positive for Covid on Thursday, has been fully vaccinated and boosted twice, the White House said.
"That's probably a result of lymphoid activation as his body clears the virus, and that's encouraging," O'Connor said of Biden's sore throat. "His runny nose, cough, and body aches have improved significantly. His voice remains deep. His pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and temperature remain normal. His oxygen saturation remains good on room air. His lungs remain clear." (A cold is a cold.)
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O'Connor said Biden is responding well to treatment and is not experiencing shortness of breath, adding that his symptoms will remain "medically supportive" with oral hydration, Tylenol and an albuterol inhaler that he "uses as needed occasionally. cough."
"He will continue to take low-dose aspirin as an alternative type of blood thinner," O'Connor added.
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White House Covid Response Coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha told ABC News on "This Week" on Sunday that none of the 17 people believed to be in close contact with Biden had tested positive for Covid by the end of Saturday. "They are following CDC protocol and we will continue to follow them," he said.
Jha confirmed in an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" that Biden was infected with a highly contagious strain, the BA.5 subvariant of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, adding, "But with our vaccines and therapeutics that work well against it, so I think that the president is doing a good job."
First Lady Jill Biden tested negative for Covid again on Sunday, according to her press secretary Michael LaRosa. He is in Wilmington, Delaware and is experiencing no symptoms of Covid.