First Lady Jill Biden Tests Positive for COVID-19 – Opinion

The White Home introduced on Tuesday that First Girl Jill Biden has been contaminated with COVID-19 after testing destructive for the virus on Monday. The information got here as she is vacationing with President Joe Biden and different members of the family in South Carolina.

“After testing destructive for COVID-19 on Monday throughout her common testing cadence, the First Girl started to develop cold-like signs late within the night,” mentioned the assertion from Elizabeth Alexander, Jill Biden’s communications director. “She examined destructive once more on a fast antigen check, however a PCR check got here again optimistic.”

The assertion notes that “[t]he First Girl is double-vaccinated, twice boosted, and solely experiencing delicate signs” and has “been prescribed a course of Paxlovid and, following CDC steerage, will isolate from others for a minimum of 5 days.”

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The First Girl remains to be staying in South Carolina and can stay there till she receives two cconsecutive COVID-19 assessments.

The information comes weeks after President Joe Biden examined optimistic for the coronavirus. He left isolation two weeks in the past after testing destructive for the virus. Up to now, the First Girl is experiencing solely delicate signs.