First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, her spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

“After testing negative for COVID-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the first lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening,” Elizabeth Alexander, Jill Biden’s communications director, said in a statement. “She tested negative again on a rapid antigen test, but a PCR test came back positive.”

The 71-year-old first lady, who is double vaccinated and twice boosted, is experiencing mild symptoms, Alexander said.

“She has been prescribed a course of Paxlovid and, following CDC guidance, will isolate from others for at least five days,” Alexander added.

First lady Jill Biden smiles as she is introduced

WASHINGTON — The day after a newly coronavirus-free President Biden embarked on a post-infection vacation to South Carolina, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released revisions to pandemic guidance that clearly indicate a shift from the state-of-emergency approach that has been in place, at least on the federal level, since 2020.

The new rules, unveiled by the CDC’s chief field epidemiologist Dr. Gretta Massetti on Thursday afternoon, are the latest sign that the Biden administration is seeking to move into a new post-pandemic mode that acknowledges the dangers posed by the coronavirus but also allows people to make their own decisions about how much those dangers should dictate their

WASHINGTON — Up-to-date vaccination and a powerful treatment have combined to help President Biden fight off the coronavirus, his personal physician said Monday.

“His symptoms have now almost completely resolved,” Dr. Kevin O’Connor wrote in the latest of his daily updates on Biden’s health. “When questioned, at this point he only notes some residual nasal congestion and minimal hoarseness.”

Biden is likely to continue testing positive for the coronavirus for several more days. And he will wear a mask in public after his five-day isolation period ends on Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in its COVID-19 guidance that masks should be worn for five days following the

WASHINGTON — The White House confirmed on Saturday that the strain of coronavirus that infected President Biden several days ago is likely to have been BA.5, the highly contagious Omicron subvariant now comprising most new infections in the United States.

“The president’s causative agent is most likely the BA.5 variant,” said a Saturday morning letter from the president’s personal physician, Dr. Kevin C. O’Connor. He added that confirmation, which came from preliminary genetic sequencing, “does not affect the treatment plan in any way.”

BA.5 now accounts for eight out of 10 new coronavirus cases in the United States, and although it does not make people sicker than previous variants, it spreads

WASHINGTON — Americans work far more than most of their peers in the developed world, a habit that not even a global pandemic could halt. Many knowledge-class professionals who have the luxury of working from home (service workers rarely enjoy such benefits, or the benefit of paid sick leave) have chosen to do so even when sick with COVID-19, despite corporate leaders and medical professionals urging against such practices.

“The American mentality is that we just don’t know how to relax and rest,” a Los Angeles emergency care doctor told CNBC.

This week, President Biden became part of the working-through-COVID dilemma that millions of others have experienced in the last two

President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday morning, the White House announced.

In a statement, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Biden, 79, is experiencing “very mild symptoms” and has begun taking Paxlovid, an antiviral therapy that was recommended by Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician.

According to O’Connor, Biden began experiencing symptoms — a runny nose, fatigue and an occasional dry cough — on Wednesday evening.

The president will continue to work remotely from his residence at the White House, where he is expected to self-isolate for at least five days, according to current guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Jean-Pierre said that Biden has

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Tuesday to endorse emergency authorization of a new COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Maryland biotechnology company Novavax, making it the fourth immunization to clear that hurdle in the U.S. — and the first to rely on the same familiar technology as some seasonal flu shots.

An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration previously recommended making two doses of Novavax available to Americans 18 and older for their initial inoculation, and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is expected to sign off on the new vaccine later this week — after which the Biden administration’s recently announced order of 3.2 million

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As cases of monkeypox continue to rise in the United States, public health experts are beginning to question whether it’s too late to prevent the infectious disease — which has been endemic in parts of Africa for decades — from gaining a foothold in the U.S.

As of Friday there were 1,800 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the U.S., though experts say lack of testing capacity means the true spread of the virus is likely much wider. “I think the window for getting control of this and containing it probably has closed, and if it hasn’t closed,

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In the weeks following the Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended constitutional protections for abortion, the White House has come under strong criticism from many Democrats for what they see as a tepid response from President Biden and his administration.

But Biden has not been silent on the issue. He gave a speech shortly after the ruling was released denouncing the “extreme ideology” of the court and pledged to do “all in my power” to protect access to abortion. A core part of his message, though, was that his authority on the issue

Top U.S. health officials warned Tuesday that a surge of COVID-19 cases driven by the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant BA.5 has arrived, but stressed that the country has the tools — like vaccines and antiviral treatments — to prevent people from getting seriously ill.

“We know how to manage it,” Dr. Ashish Jha, coordinator of the White House’s COVID-19 response, said at a virtual press briefing. “We can prevent serious illness. We can save lives and we can minimize disruptions caused by COVID-19.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the BA.5 subvariant now accounts for 65% of current COVID-19 cases in the United States.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s