President Joe Biden likely has the highly contagious BA.5 variant of COVID-19, although his symptoms “continue to improve,” White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor wrote in a July 23 memo.
“His primary symptoms, though less troublesome, now include sore throat, rhinorrhea, loose cough, and body aches,” O’Connor wrote in the memo, noting that Biden finished his second full day of Pfizer’s antiviral pill Paxlovid on July 22 and “continues to tolerate treatment well.”
