President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 after coming in close proximity with a staffer who tested positive for the virus, the White House said Monday.
A “mid-level staff member, who does not regularly have contact with the president” tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday morning after the staff member had spent about 30 minutes in the proximity of Biden on Air Force One on Friday as he traveled from South Carolina to Pennsylvania, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.
Psaki said that Biden received a negative antigen test on Sunday as part of his regular testing and also turned in a negative PCR test on Monday after learning of the staffer’s positive test.
Biden will be tested again on Wednesday, she added.
“As CDC guidance does not require fully vaccinated people to quarantine after an exposure, the president will continue with his daily schedule,” said Psaki.
The staff member is fully vaccinated and has received a booster shot and tested negative prior to boarding Air force one and did not begin to experience symptoms until Sunday, the statement added.
The news comes as Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Corey Booker, D-N.J., both announced Sunday that they had tested positive for “breakthrough” cases of COVID-19 despite being vaccinated.
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What a shame. I can think of no better a candidate to die from covid than fully vaccinated slo joe.
AND fauci!! Can’t for get him!
It wouldn’t matter if he got anyway… nothing would happen… they’d give him Ivermectin, hydroxycholorquine and antimicrobial antibiotic … you know the treatments the CDC, WHO and these demons are doing …EVERYTHING… they can to stop the general public from using these treatments that work way better than the CHINA VIRUS vaccine. It’s all an evil swindle.
YOU can bet he’s already GOT A STOCKPILE OF all of those drugs, JUST FOR HIS and his cronies us.
If they test him for cognitive ability, it will be sub-negative.
there is a treatment for that… it’s called conservatism.
Too many of these libtards, are too FAR GONE to ever get treated..