BREAKING: President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing 'very mild symptoms,' according to the White House.
The virus has evolved into a strain that is highly transmissible BA.5, that can sidestep immunity from previous Omicron infections and vaccinations, health officials say.Biden was last tested for COVID-19 on Tuesday, when he tested negative, she added.ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton said the biggest factor in treatment will be his age.
"That is why," she said, it's"no surprise that he's being treated with the antiviral pill Paxlovid. It's been shown in clinical trials to be 89% effective in reducing the risk of severe COVID-19 illness, meaning hospitalization or death." Ashton stressed,"He is going to be closely monitored at the White House by the personal physician of the president, and if anything looks like it is going in the wrong direction, I absolutely expect that he would be hospitalized, if nothing else than for more close observation. But remember, the White House is not like your home or my home -- they can do a lot of medical monitoring and observation and testing right there.
Former President Donald Trump was briefly hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center in October 2020 after he tested positive for COVID-19., a senior adviser to the president on the pandemic, tested positive last month.
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