US President Joe Biden tests positive for Covid-19.

United States President Joe Biden, has tested positive for COVID-19. According to a statement from the white house, The US President will fly to his home on Delaware where he will continue his self isolation for the next 2 weeks. Biden, 81, was experiencing mild symptoms and has received his first dose of the antiviral drug Paxlovid, according to his doctor. Biden last tested positive for COVID-19 twice in the summer of 2022, when he had a primary case and a rebound case of the virus.

Biden has been vaccinated and is current on his recommended annual booster dose for COVID-19. The vaccines have proven highly effective at limiting serious illness and death from the virus, which killed more than 1 million people in the U.S since the pandemic began in 2020. Paxlovid- a drug that has been proven to curtail the chances of serious illness and death from COVID-19 when prescribed in the early days of an infection, but has also been associated with rebound infections, where the virus comes back a few days after clearing up.

The president’s diagnosis comes amid intense scrutiny of his health and stamina after a disastrous debate with former President Donald Trump that sparked a huge concern among Democrats that Biden is not up to the rigors of serving through another presidential term and he now faces new questions over his candidacy in the November election with his campaign events currently on pause due to a Covid-19 infection.