Biden tests positive for Covid again, will restart isolation despite no new symptoms

[www.cnbc.com]

President Joe Biden on Saturday tested positive for Covid-19 once again after consecutive days of testing negative for the virus, his physician said.

Biden, 79, is experiencing no new symptoms and “continues to feel quite well,” Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a memo shared by the White House.

But he will nevertheless “reinitiate strict isolation procedures,” the presidential physician wrote.

Biden, who is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, tweeted Saturday afternoon that he was asymptomatic but would isolate “for the safety of everyone around me.”

“I’m still at work, and will be back on the road soon,” the president’s tweet said.



Dr O’Connor had previously warned of the potential for a “rebound” in positive test results, a phenomenon among a small percentage of patients who, like Biden, used the antiviral medication Paxlovid as part of their treatment.



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What the heck happened? Are we all gonna get it? I've avoided it so far.

Seems like a lot of people are experiencing rebounds after using Paxlovid even though the data says the chances are around 1%.

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What the heck happened? Are we all gonna get it? I've avoided it so far.

Yes

Well, if we’re all gonna get it, the important thing is how we’ll do, and in that regard, it looks like vaccination is still the way to go to avoid bad outcomes.

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Seems like a lot of people are experiencing rebounds after using Paxlovid even though the data says the chances are around 1%.

I think it is much higher than the 1%, but they don’t know because many don’t get retested.
I suspect my mom might have tested positive after taking Paxlovid, if she had been retested.
I wonder how likely they are to actually spread the virus to others, even though they test positive.

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Seems like a lot of people are experiencing rebounds after using Paxlovid even though the data says the chances are around 1%.

.....i read article stating this recently....and it seems it is happening more often.....

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

well, the data say not to take a PCR test for about 90 days after symptoms subside, because it may come up positive.



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I call horse crap on the 1% number.

I did rebound about 5 days after finishing Paxlovid. It wasn't just that I tested positive, it was like having COVID again: fever, chills, runny nose, headaches for another 10 days.

I don't know anyone that didn't have the same experience with paxlovid.

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Were all used to Biden hanging out in the basement, no one will miss him

I think I got rebound 7 days after stopping Molnupiravir. Stuffy nose, no fever, but my wife got Covid a few days later (which she avoided the first time I had symptoms). As I didn't get tested after my initial negative test, hard to say, there were other opportunities for her do get infected and for me to get congested (we were on an international trip). I had two boosters, she one.

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Were all used to Biden hanging out in the basement, no one will miss him

We would have been better off if Trump had stayed in the basement and let the adults in the room handle the crisis.

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Mr645
Were all used to Biden hanging out in the basement, no one will miss him

We would have been better off if Trump had stayed in the basement and let the adults in the room handle the crisis.

At least Trump was in charge to get the COVID vaccines developed in record time, oh, and was closing the wage gap, helping low and middle income families. But Biden sure fixed those issues, back t normal, rich get richer and poor people rely on the government for food.

Trump, in the basement of the Whitehouse, creating the COVID vaccine:

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At least Trump was in charge to get the COVID vaccines developed in record time...

“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

“I think the virus is going to be—it’s going to be fine.”

“The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA.”

“Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”

“The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

“We're going very substantially down, not up.”

“Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low.”

“Well, we're testing everybody that we need to test. And we're finding very little problem. Very little problem.”

"This is a flu. This is like a flu."

“It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

“And that's what we've done. We've stopped it."

“I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning?”

“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light … and then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body…”

Etc., etc. etc.

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Mr645
At least Trump was in charge to get the COVID vaccines developed in record time...

“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

“I think the virus is going to be—it’s going to be fine.”

“The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA.”

“Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”

“The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

“We're going very substantially down, not up.”

“Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low.”

“Well, we're testing everybody that we need to test. And we're finding very little problem. Very little problem.”

"This is a flu. This is like a flu."

“It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

“And that's what we've done. We've stopped it."

“I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning?”

“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light … and then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body…”

Etc., etc. etc.

I will shut down the virus LOL Great words from Basement Biden. useless words, but they sound nice

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Mr645
At least Trump was in charge to get the COVID vaccines developed in record time...

“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

“I think the virus is going to be—it’s going to be fine.”

“The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA.”

“Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”

“The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

“We're going very substantially down, not up.”

“Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low.”

“Well, we're testing everybody that we need to test. And we're finding very little problem. Very little problem.”

"This is a flu. This is like a flu."

“It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

“And that's what we've done. We've stopped it."

“I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning?”

“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light … and then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body…”

Etc., etc. etc.

I will shut down the virus LOL Great words from Basement Biden. useless words, but they sound nice

But he did redefine recession.

And Breakfast Tacos