White House COVID chief confirms Biden has BA.5 subvariant, says he's 'feeling much, much better'

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White House COVID chief confirms Biden has BA.5 subvariant, says he's 'feeling much, much better'
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'Thank goodness, our vaccines and therapeutics work well against it, which is why I think the president's doing well,' Jha told FaceTheNation.

last Thursday that Mr. Biden, who is 79, tested positive for COVID-19 after managing to avoid getting infected for more than two years since the start of the pandemic. Dr. Kevin O'Connor, the president's physician, said Mr. Biden began taking Paxlovid, an antiviral treatment, on Thursday and was taking Tylenol. that the president's symptoms"continue to improve significantly." The doctor wrote that Mr.

"But I suspect this is going to be a course of COVID that we've seen in many Americans who have been fully vaccinated, double boosted, getting treated with those tools in hand," he said."You know, the president has been doing well, and we're going to expect that he's going to continue to do so." "I think that's a very important and effective way of reducing transmission, protecting yourself as well," he said.declared monkeypox

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