President Biden tests negative for Covid and will end strict
President Joe Biden, who tested positive today for Covid-19 this morning, posts on Twitter “Folks, I’m doing great. Thanks for your concern. Just called Senator Casey, Congressman Cartwright, and Mayor Cognetti (and my Scranton cousins!) to send my regrets for missing our event today.”
Courtesy: White House
President Joe Biden has tested negative for Covid-19 twice since Tuesday night and will end strict isolation measures he had been following since contracting the coronavirus last week, the White House physician said in a new letter.
That letter was made public as the White House announced that Biden would give remarks in the Rose Garden at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Biden plans to discuss his negative Covid test and where the U.S. stands in its two-year battle against the virus.
The president Wednesday morning tweeted a photo showing his negative test, with the message: “Back to the Oval. Thanks to Doc for the good care, and to all of you for your support.”
Biden, 79, was diagnosed Thursday with Covid. The White House that day said Biden was experiencing “very mild symptoms.” Biden is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House physician, in his letter Wednesday morning wrote that Biden completed a five-day course of the antiviral medication Paxlovid “36 hours ago,” and “as of this morning has completed five full days of isolation.”
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