President Joe Biden left the White House for Rehoboth Beach on Sunday morning after being released from isolation.
The president is heading to his family home on the Delaware coast, where he will be reunited with Jill Biden. He last saw the first lady on July 20.
“I feel good,” he told reporters at the White House upon departure.
He smiled and waved as he walked towards Marine One.
Biden, 79, finally tested negative for COVID on Saturday, seven days after developing a recurring infection with the virus.
The White House has not said whether President Biden will test negative a second time, as officials have said he will do before coming out of isolation.
President Joe Biden left the White House for Rehoboth Beach on Sunday morning after being released from isolation
“I feel good,” he told reporters at the White House as he departed
President Biden is heading to his family home on the Delaware coast, where he will be reunited with Jill Biden. He last saw the first lady on July 20
White House physician Dr Kevin C. O’ Connor wrote on Saturday: ‘The President continues to feel very well. Given his active recovery that we reported last Saturday, we’ve continued to follow up on a daily basis.
‘This morning, his SARS-CoV-2 antigen test came back negative.
‘Out of an abundance of caution, the President will continue his strict isolation measures pending a second negative test as previously described.’
Biden first tested positive for COVID on July 21. He took the antiviral drug Paxlovid to treat the condition and tested negative on July 27.
The President later returned to work in the West Wing and wore a mask.
But he was reinstated on July 30, with another positive test result.
The president spent a total of 14 days in quarantine in the White House – including 7 days during his most recent re-infection, before testing negative on Saturday.
Biden’s negative COVID test was notified with this letter sent by his physician Kevin C. O’Connor to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Saturday
Biden is pictured on the White House podium on Aug. 5. At the time, he tested positive for COVID, and now seems to have finally beaten the virus’s rebound.
Image of Biden rubbing his face during a virtual meeting with business and labor leaders on July 25, four days after his initial COVID diagnosis
He has resumed official business and says his symptoms have been mild.
Paxlovid – manufactured by Pfizer – is said to be able to cause a COVID re-infection rate of up to 40% in patients taking it.
Scientists say this may be because it prevents the body from forming its own natural response to a COVID infection, leaving patients vulnerable to reinfection more quickly after initially recovering from the illness.
Biden appeared at events this week via zoom, including on Wednesday when he participated in the first meeting of the Interagency Task Force on Access to Reproductive Health, chaired by the Vice President. Kamala Harris came out on top, and on Thursday, when he hosted a virtual event. with business and labor leaders.
He also delivered an evening speech from the White House residence to announce a US strike that killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
President Joe Biden tested positive again on Friday, as his recovered covid case dragged on and he faced a Saturday in isolation.
He has shown small signs that he is ready to get out of the second-floor residence of the White House, where he is living with his dog Commander as he recovers.
“I wish I had met you in person, quite frankly,” Biden said during a virtual meeting at the White House on Wednesday. “But I’m getting there.”
But the White House has scheduled live events to return soon.
The White House announced Friday Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Kentucky on Monday to see the damage caused by the storm.
Biden will sign the 2022 PACT Act in the Rose Garden on Wednesday, the White House announced earlier this week.
The bill, which expands health care to military veterans exposed to toxic burn pits, was passed by the Senate by an overwhelming vote of 86 to 11 on Tuesday night. The house has already overcome it.
And he will sign the CHIPS bill on Tuesday.
