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| The US president will skip a public appearance and self-isolate at home, the White House has confirmed | The US president will skip a public appearance and self-isolate at home, the White House has confirmed |
| US President Joe Biden is experiencing “mild symptoms” after contracting Covid-19 and will cancel his planned public appearances in Las Vegas to isolate in Delaware, the White House announced on Wednesday. | US President Joe Biden is experiencing “mild symptoms” after contracting Covid-19 and will cancel his planned public appearances in Las Vegas to isolate in Delaware, the White House announced on Wednesday. |
| ”The President presented this afternoon with upper respiratory symptoms, including rhinorrhea (runny nose) and a non-productive cough, with general malaise. He felt okay for his first event of the day, but given that he was not feeling better, point-of-care testing for COVID-19 was conducted, and the results were positive,” the president’s doctor said. | |
| The White House emphasized that Biden is “vaccinated and boosted and he is experiencing mild symptoms,” and has already received “his first dose of Paxlovid.” | The White House emphasized that Biden is “vaccinated and boosted and he is experiencing mild symptoms,” and has already received “his first dose of Paxlovid.” |
| Biden was scheduled to speak at the civil rights nonprofit UnidosUS conference on Wednesday, but the organizers said that the plan was scrapped. | |
| Republicans have long alleged that the 81-year-old US leader lacks physical and mental fortitude for the presidency, but his performance at a CNN-hosted debate with Trump last month put his apparent frailty on display for members of his own party, too. On Tuesday, Biden gave a brief speech at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) convention in which he again struggled to complete sentences, despite reading from a teleprompter. | |
| In an interview with BET News filmed earlier this week, Biden was asked whether anything would make him reconsider staying in the race for the White House. | |
| ”If I had some medical condition that emerged, if doctors came and said ‘you’ve got this problem, that problem,’” Biden responded. |