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All those precautions around him and all that testing that goes on around him has still contracted it. and to your point, behavior is now, for many people, may change and revert to what they were with masks. >> well, poppy, i think this was entirely predictable. the president and his team have been trying to protect him in the united states by giving him a strategy that tests everybody that comes into close proximity. but when you go abroad, and when he was at the nato se summit an then later on...

Announced this news about the president contracting covid-19. lets listen to her. >> my husband tested positive for covid. i talked to him a few minutes ago. hes doing type, feeling good. i tested negative this morning. i am going to keep my schedule. i am, according to cdc guidelines, i am wearing a mask. so i would like to go in and see the program here, learning loss as an educator means a lot to me. so thank you for being here. [ inaudible question ] >> dr. jill biden there saying she spoke ...

Variant, is so transmissible. i dont know about you, but i have a hard time thinking of something who hasnt had covid recently. >> thank you for your coverage on the breaking news. let me jump to kaitlan collins. you have some new reporting. >> we just got a letter from joe bidens doctor. he says that it was a pcr test that joe biden took this morning, and tested positive on. he said the result was subsequently confirmed after that, according to dr. oconnor. he said on questioning, joe biden is ...

For covid. hes 79 years of age, the white house saying hes experiencing very mild symptoms. white house covid response coordinator dr. ashish jha telling nbc news the president is tired. he has a runny nose and dry cough as well. the white house is saying he is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and has begun taking the antiviral drug paxlovid. the first lady who is currently in detroit, michigan, considered a close contact has, in fact, tested negative and addressed how hes doing this morning. ...

And then this is sort of an off label question here but something that is very top of mind for clinicians like myself when treating patients with paxlovid. do you stop at day five? i recognize the fda emergency team -- five days of paxlovid. when somebody is high risk like president biden, do you potentially go for a longer period of time? thats something that is happening off label anecdotally i can share that is that is something in an abundance of caution do you do that to prevent the risk of...

Year and a half in office for president biden without receiving covid but at the same time white house officials had always indicated that it was possible he would get it. they werent shying away from that fact and in this moment and weve seen that moment now come that he would be given the best care and that their level of concern about what would happen was minimal at this point but naturally, of course, well hear from the white house and from dr. jha later today in which well get more informa...

And on paxlovid he still could progress over the next 24 to 48 hours so this is someone obviously because of age you want to watch very closely and i think we should not be profoundly disappointed if we find out that he is brought to walter reed for observation and for closer monitoring. im hoping that doesnt happen. i think its more likely he wont require that but that is a possibility that i think we should be watching for over the next 24, 48 hours. >> talk to me about the timing of the boost...

The press pool. those 13 reporters and photographers who travel very closely with the president. those folks are always tested with a rapid test on the day that they are going to be in contact or traveling with the president. i presume that the white house will be doing contact tracing around those officials who are with him. some of those members who traveled and flew with the president on air force one, again, air force one is also still requiring masks on board, even though that federal trave...

Described in japan will not happen in america, that is not the reality. and this discussion now among municipalities and cities about do we reinstitute mask mandates indoors, this really comes to the fore again now. >> reporter: the white house has been talking about this, and dr. jha, well hear from him, the covid response coordinator at the white house. he is going to appear this afternoon in front of cameras to talk. obviously, he will answer questions from reporters there. well see if maybe ...

>> all right, with me now nbcs mike memoli at the white house. dr. vin gupta is here, medical contributor joining us as well. memoli, let me go to you first and reset what you know about how the president is doing and whats being done to monitor his condition during this time. >> reporter: well, we just heard in the last half hour to dr. kevin oconnor, the presidents chief physician, has been his chief physician since his time as vice president so a long relationship, he indicated that, yes, the...