The 79-year-old president is a litmus for how older, more vulnerable people are faring against more contagious variants in a world without masks.
“It’s a reminder of the reason that we all work so hard to make sure that every American has the same level of protection that the president has, that every American has the same level of immunity, and why we have worked so hard to make sure that people have access to lifesaving treatments like paxlovid,” Jha said at a briefing.“These are incredibly important things for the president to have. They’re incredibly important things for every American to have.
Topol and others have called for all Americans to test negative before leaving isolation, saying the CDC’s failure to recommend such a test result means that many Americans are prematurely leaving isolation and infecting others. He added that Biden’s infection, despite the use of testing, screening and mask-wearing around him for indoor meetings, underscored that “BA.5 is really contagious. He’s probably the person in America with the best protections. No one can rest assured that they won’t get infected.”
, and also after a slew of senior administration officials have tested positive — including 81-year-old Anthony S. Fauci, who suffered an infection this summer and has returned to work.“We have said for some time that there was a substantial possibility that the President — like anyone else — could get COVID,” White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain wrote colleagues on Thursday.
“We have the capacity to control it,” Biden said Wednesday, adding a message for holdouts. “They should get vaccinated now.”
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