The administration set out to turn the diagnosis into a 'teachable moment' and dispel any notion of a crisis.
WASHINGTON — For more than a year, President Joe Biden's ability to avoid the coronavirus seemed to defy the odds. When he finally did test positive, the White House was ready. It set out to turn the diagnosis into a"teachable moment" and dispel any notion of a crisis.
It was all part of an administration effort to shift the narrative from a health scare to a display of Biden as the personification of the idea that most Americans can get COVID and recover without too much suffering and disruption if they've gotten their shots and taken other important steps to protect themselves.
Jean-Pierre and White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha didn't fully answer questions about whether Biden began isolating as soon as he started experiencing symptoms on Wednesday night, as federal guidelines suggest, or did so following his positive test the next day. Jha declined to speculate on some aspects of the president's prognosis, characterizing the questions as hypotheticals.
Jha said Biden's case was being prioritized, meaning it will likely take less than a week for sequencing to determine which variant of the virus Biden contracted. Omicron's highly contagious BA.5 sub-strain now makes up more than 65% of U.S. cases. During her briefing, Jean-Pierre bristled at suggestions the Biden administration wasn't being much more forthcoming with information about the president's illness than that of his predecessor, Donald Trump. The former president contracted COVID-19 in the fall of 2020, before vaccines were available, and was hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for three nights.
Dr. Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University, said it was good for the White House to send the message that Biden can keep working even after testing positive.Jean-Pierre's predecessor, Jen Psaki, noted that White House officials have"been preparing for this probably for several months now, given the percentage of people in the country who have tested positive.
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