family, friends, colleagues. mild symptoms, runny nose, sore throat and we don t know what strain biden has. but based on what we know about what strain is moving through the u.s. population now, is that generally what vaccinated and boosted people see if they do test positive for covid? yeah, jim, that s exactly what people see. i would have to bet that this is the ba.5 strain, over 95% of the country. even though the symptoms are more mild and yes, they usually can be easily confused with a cold, science congestion, sore throat, you have to be careful because it is in the next five days or so that in some people a rare number of people that can turn into something a little bit more bronchial, a little bit more lung related. and we have to be cautious also for the next week or two that he may also have continued inflammation and coughing, and things like that. but you re absolutely right, those are the symptoms that usually happen nowadays. a lot of things as you said working in h
okay, we have breaking news, i m sorry. we have breaking news. we have just learned joe biden has been tested positive for covid-19. let s get straight to jeremy diamond at the white house. how is the president s health overall? obviously, he s fully vaccinated, boosted. but he did just come off this big overseas trip. reporter: yeah, listen. this is obviously very significant news, but also very different from when we had a president of the united states last test positive for covid, that was president trump before he had been vaccinated. in this case, joe biden is vaccinated and double boosted. but he is experiencing, we re told, very mild symptoms, according to the white house. and he has begun taking a course of that anti-viral paxlovid treatment. let me read you part of this statement we just got, saying that consistent with cdc guidelines, he will isolate at the white house and will continue to carry out all of his
we expect the white house press secretary to hold a briefing this afternoon at the white house in which we can expect further updates. worth noting that karine jean-pierre was among those traveling with president biden yesterday on air force one with the president and in closer quarters aboard marine one with the president wearing a mask when i saw her getting off marine one last night but, you know, there has been something of a running joke around the press corps, around the white house even that as so many individuals in the administration mock staff have been testing positive for covid-19 the white house has almost routinely said that the president was not a close contact. so now this question of who is a close contact of the president given this diagnosis is one that we re going to be also asking officials about more and more because those officials as you would expect now would be subject to the protocols when somebody does test positive who they are considered to be a close cont
this, peter, as we re learning of the president, now testing positive for covid. thankfully, vaccinated and boosted multiple times, experiencing multiple symptoms. what else are you learning? you detailed what we re just hearing from the press secretary, karine jean-pierre. we just received that statement. i want to make sure you can hear me. live television. there grow. live television. obviously, we just hustled outside. there you can hear me clearly now. so the president did, as you know, test positive. we did just get that information from karine jean-pierre, the press secretary, within the last five minutes or so. president biden was scheduled today to be traveling to wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, for an event. clearly, he s not going to be able to make that trip as a function of this new test. we are reaching out, as we speak, to the first lady s office, as well, trying to get any better detail on whether, in fact, she may have tested