After first being diagnosed with COVID on July 21, President Joe Biden tested positive for the condition Saturday. It’s not the first time he’s tested negative since he got the ‘Rona; in fact, he was cleared five days following that initial diagnosis after being treated with the antiviral drug Paxlovid. He tested positive once again on July 30 in what doctors call a “rare” rebound case. Interestingly, Chief Medical Advisor to the President, Dr. Anthony Fauci, also suffered such a rebound case in June and described the effects as “much worse than the first go-around.”
Joe will stay at the White House, isolated from any negative results until Sunday’s second test. They hope this will happen on Sunday. By my count, it’s been 16 days since news broke of the first positive result. To be fair, it’s not as if he’s been the Hardest Working President before now, taking vacations regularly.
The effectiveness of the boosters and mRNA vaccines has been questioned by his long-term illness.
Biden, July 2021: “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations”
Biden after 4 vaccination doses in July-August 2022: Tests positive for COVID for the 7th straight day https://t.co/QCUubVmSpV
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) August 5, 2022
I brought you the story on July 24 about how many critics of the vaccine and mask mandates felt they had an “I told you so” moment after Biden initially tested positive despite taking every possible precaution that Fauci and the CDC recommended.
How rare are these Paxlovid cases of rebound Paxlovid? CNBC reports:
Some patients who took Pfizer’s Paxlovid after contracting the coronavirus have reported the same phenomenon: Days after they finished a five-day course of the oral drug and felt better, their Covid symptoms or a positive test result returned…
Roughly 5% of the tens of thousands of Paxlovid users have experienced rebound cases so far, White House Covid response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said at a news conference last month…
A UC San Diego School of Medicine study released in June identified “insufficient drug exposure” as the most likely cause. In that scenario, Paxlovid stops the virus in its tracks for five days, but doesn’t stick around long enough to purge the infection entirely — allowing the virus to temporarily replicate again once the drug is gone.
Biden hasn’t been invisible, though, making appearances by teleprompter that even his aides maybe wish he’d skipped. My colleague Bonchie reported on how he’s been stumbling and bumbling even worse than usual and one point claimed he was the vice president. Possibly even worse, he flouted his own administration’s COVID rules for infected people on more than one occasion. This seemed especially hypocritical after he’s been lecturing the population for two years on COVID safety and has presided over an administration that forced thousands to lose their jobs over their vaccine status. For refusing to get the vaccines, he also expelled 57,000 members of Army National Guard Reserve and Army Reserve.
Despite his absence, it seems that the rest of the world is doing just fine.
Biden disappeared, we’re assured it’s due to weeks’ long Covid. The agenda continues to move forward. If you needed proof Biden wasn’t ever in control, now it’s incontrovertible.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 5, 2022
This administration will not be easing off their restrictive policies any time soon, however. Politico reports Saturday:
According to three sources familiar with the matter, the Biden administration could extend the Covid-19 health crisis once more, in order to ensure that federal health measures expanding access health care and treatment options continue beyond midterm elections.
Given that our health authorities have reacted to this virus with so many nonsensical plans at the federal and local level—arresting a paddleboarder in Malibu, banning the purchase of seeds in Michigan, the list goes on and on—it’s getting harder and harder to have any faith in them. Add “Paxlovid rebound” and monkeypox to the list of things that are supposed to keep you up at night.
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