Headline Roundup • July 25th, 2022
Biden Shows Signs of Improvement in Bout with COVID-19
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Kevin O'Connell, the physician of President Joe Biden, said Sunday that Biden's COVID-19 symptoms "continue to improve significantly" after three days of Paxlovid treatment for the BA.5 variant.
The president tested positive on Thursday after giving a speech about climate change in Massachusetts. White House COVID Coordinator Ashish Jha said Sunday that none of the 17 people who came in close contact with Biden, including First Lady Jill Biden, have contracted the virus. Jha also stated that Biden had an upper respiratory infection, and O'Connell also said that Biden is not experiencing shortness of breath. Biden has been vaccinated and twice boosted, and is currently isolating in the White House until Tuesday, pending a negative COVID-19 test.
Biden's bout with the illness has been covered prominently across the political spectrum. Some right-rated sources, like Breitbart and Fox News, focused more on Biden's continued health symptoms and how the health of former Presidents was covered.
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President Biden’s current “predominant” COVID-19 symptom is a sore throat, and he is using an asthma inhaler for his cough, his doctor said Sunday.
The president, who contracted the uber-contagious BA.5 variant, “completed his third day of Paxlovid last night,” Dr. Kevin O’Connor wrote in a letter released by the White House, referring to the anti-viral drug treatment.
“His symptoms continue to improve significantly.
“His [runny nose], cough and body aches have diminished considerably,” O’Connor said. “His voice remains deep. … His oxygen saturation continues to be excellent on room air.
“His symptoms will...
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President Joe Biden’s condition since contracting COVID-19 has improved considerably and his greatest symptom now is a sore throat, his physician said on Sunday.
Biden’s cough and body aches have diminished since he tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday and he is not experiencing any shortness of breath, the physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, said in a memo released by the White House.
“His symptoms continue to improve significantly. His predominant symptom now is sore throat. This is most likely a result of lymphoid activation as his body clears the virus, and is thus encouraging,” O’Connor...
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After testing positive for Covid-19 last week, President Joe Biden’s symptoms “continue to improve significantly,” the White House physician said in a memo Sunday.
Biden finished a third day of treatment with the antiviral Paxlovid on Saturday night and his “predominant symptom now is a sore throat,” wrote Kevin O’Connor, the physician to the president. He noted that the sore throat was likely a result of Biden’s body clearing the virus, and that the previously reported nasal drip, body aches and cough have “diminished considerably.”
O’Connor also wrote that Biden was experiencing...
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