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LAS VEGAS (NewsNation) — President Joe Biden canceled a Las Vegas run quality Wednesday aft being diagnosed with COVID-19, according to the White House.
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."
Dr. Kevin O'Connor, the president's physician, said successful a enactment Biden “presented this day with precocious respiratory symptoms, to see rhinorrhea (runny nose) and non-productive cough, with wide malaise.” After the affirmative COVID-19 test, Biden was prescribed the antiviral cause Paxlovid and has taken his archetypal dose, O'Connor said.
“I consciousness good," Biden told reporters portion connected his mode to Air Force One.
Biden was slated to talk astatine the UnidosUS lawsuit successful Las Vegas Wednesday day arsenic portion of an effort to rally Hispanic voters up of the November election.
The president had antecedently been astatine the Original Lindo Michoacan edifice successful Las Vegas, wherever helium was greeting diners and was scheduled to person an interrogation with Univision.
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 fittingness — 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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