First Woman Jill Biden rides her bicycle alongside the seaside whereas on trip in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, on August 14, 2022.
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First Woman Jill Biden rides her bicycle alongside the seaside whereas on trip in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, on August 14, 2022.
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First woman Jill Biden, 71, has examined optimistic for COVID-19 and is experiencing delicate signs, based on a press release from her spokeswoman, Elizabeth Alexander.
“After testing adverse for COVID-19 on Monday throughout her common testing cadence, the First Woman started to develop cold-like signs late within the night. She examined adverse once more on a speedy antigen check, however a PCR check got here again optimistic,” the assertion mentioned.
The primary woman, who’s double-vaccinated and twice boosted, has been prescribed a course of Paxlovid. Per CDC steerage, Biden will stay at a non-public residence in Kiawah Island, South Carolina and isolate from others for a minimum of 5 days.
The assertion mentioned she plans to return house after receiving two consecutive adverse COVID checks.
The White Home mentioned President Biden, who has been vacationing along with his spouse and household, is taken into account an in depth contact and can masks whereas indoors for the subsequent 10 days.
In line with CDC steerage as a result of he’s an in depth contact of the First Woman, he’ll masks for 10 days when indoors and in shut proximity to others. We may even enhance the President’s testing cadence and report these outcomes.
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) August 16, 2022
Biden, who examined optimistic for COVID on the finish of July and skilled a rebound case, has examined adverse for COVID on an antigen check.
Biden is scheduled to return to Washington Tuesday afternoon to signal the Inflation Discount Act, Democrats’ sweeping spending invoice that goals to sort out local weather change whereas decreasing the deficit and the price of pharmaceuticals. It handed with none Republican help.
