President Biden tests negative for COVID-19, will end strict isolation measures

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President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning and will end "his strict isolation measures," according to the physician to the president, Dr. Kevin O'Connor.

 

The negative test comes less than one week after the president's first positive test on Thursday morning.

Biden finished his five-day course of Paxlovid 36 hours ago, O'Connor said Wednesday morning.

 

"His symptoms have been steadily improving, and are almost completely resolved,” O’Connor said.

 

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A stir crazy Joe Biden fought Covid cabin fever with help from his dog and a stack of books about Ireland

(CNN)When President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid last week, the dog stayed with him. The cat went with his wife.

 

Biden's long-anticipated, heavily-planned-for, how-has-it-not-happened-yet Covid infection turned the White House residence briefly into a sick ward for a single, high-profile patient who aides said spent the weekend going stir crazy from the isolation.

 

His wife decamped for Delaware, bringing with her their new shorthair tabby. Staffing inside the executive mansion was reduced to the most essential personnel, whom Biden fretted might contract the highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus that likely infected him.

 

And even the cart of video equipment wheeled into the second-floor Treaty Room, phone calls from his grandkids and a stack of books about Ireland couldn't prevent the cabin fever from setting in.

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/politics/joe-biden-covid-cabin-fever/index.html