{"id":291524,"date":"2024-07-19T06:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T06:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291524"},"modified":"2024-07-20T05:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T05:50:31","slug":"biden-tests-positive-for-covid-will-self-isolate-in-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291524","title":{"rendered":"Biden Tests Positive for COVID, Will Self-Isolate in Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asharq Al-Awsat \u2013 July 18, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

US President Joe Biden, under fire from fellow Democrats to drop his re-election campaign, tested positive for COVID-19 while on a trip to Las Vegas on Wednesday and is self-isolating after experiencing mild symptoms, the White House said.<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the positive test for the 81-year-old Democrat after Biden cancelled a speech due to the diagnosis.<\/p>\n

“He is vaccinated and boosted and experiencing mild symptoms, Jean-Pierre said.<\/p>\n

As he boarded Air Force One to depart Las Vegas to recuperate in Delaware, Biden told reporters: “Good, I feel good.”<\/p>\n

The illness comes at a crucial time for Biden, who has been losing ground in battleground states against Republican Donald Trump, who is headlining a triumphant convention this week after he survived an assassination attempt on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The White House said Biden planned to spend a long weekend at his Delaware beach house. It was unclear how long the sickness would keep him for the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

Minutes after the announcement, the president’s motorcade was on the move to the Las Vegas airport after taping a radio interview in the city.<\/p>\n

Biden had greeted a couple of dozen people at a Mexican restaurant prior to going into the radio interview. He was running late to deliver a speech to Latino civil rights group UnidosUS when the organizer, Janet Murguia, announced he had tested positive for COVID.<\/p>\n

There were groans in the conference room at the news.<\/p>\n

“He said to tell my folks that we’re not going to get rid of him that quickly, we’re going to have a chance to hear from him in the future directly,” Murguia said.<\/p>\n

Biden, who had spent two nights in Vegas on the campaign trail, is locked in a battle with some fellow Democrats who worry he is too old to seek re-election and want him to step aside in favor of another candidate.<\/p>\n

He has been defiant in the face of the calls to quit the race.<\/p>\n

“He will be returning to Delaware where he will self-isolate and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time,” said Jean-Pierre.<\/p>\n

Biden suffered a blow earlier on Wednesday when a prominent Democratic member of the US House of Representatives, Adam Schiff of California, said it was time for him to “pass the torch” to someone else.<\/p>\n

Some 40% of Democratic registered voters said Biden should drop his reelection bid, in a Reuters\/Ipsos poll concluded on Tuesday. Some 65% of independent registered voters agreed with them.<\/p>\n

Some 58% of Democratic registered voters told the poll they believed Biden is too old to work in government – 70% of independent registered voters agreed.<\/p>\n

The White House cited Biden’s doctor as saying he had been suffering from upper respiratory symptoms earlier in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

“He felt OK for his first event of the day, but given that he was not feeling better, point of care testing for COVID-19 was conducted and the results were positive for the COVID-19 virus,” the statement said.<\/p>\n

The White House said Biden will be self-isolating in according with Centers for Disease Control guidelines.<\/p>\n

His symptoms are mild and he has received an initial dose of Paxlovid, the doctor said.<\/p>\n

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Wasn\u2019t he supposed to be vaccinated against Covid? Shouldn\u2019t that protect him? Or is this just an excuse to keep Biden out of the public eye, while Trump basks in a triumphant return and fellow Democrats try to convince Biden to drop his bid for re-election? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":291526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291542,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291524\/revisions\/291542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}