LAS VEGAS (NewsNation) — President Joe Biden canceled a run quality Wednesday aft being diagnosed with COVID-19, according to the CEO of UnidosUS, a Latino civilian rights and advocacy radical Biden was slated to address.
“The President presented this day with precocious respiratory symptoms, to see rhinorrhea (runny nose) and non-productive cough, with wide malaise,” according to White House Dr. Kevin O’Connor. “He felt good for his archetypal lawsuit of the day, but fixed that helium was not feeling better, constituent of attraction investigating for COVID-19 was conducted, and the results were affirmative for the COVID-19 virus. Given this, the President volition beryllium self-isolating successful accordance with CDC guidance for symptomatic individuals.”
The White House said Biden volition instrumentality to Delaware to self-isolate and "continue to transportation retired each of his duties afloat during that time."
Just hours earlier the diagnosis was disclosed, Biden signaled that helium would lone reevaluate his determination to tally for a 2nd word if a doc told him helium had a aesculapian condition.
BET News’ Ed Gordon questioned the president, amid ongoing calls for him to driblet retired and lingering questions implicit his property and intelligence fitness, connected whether determination is thing that would origin him to alteration his caput astir staying successful the race.
“If I had immoderate aesculapian information that emerged. If doctors came to maine and said, ‘You’ve got this problem, that problem,’” Biden replied. “But I made a superior mistake successful the full debate.”
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