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Official is saying the vice president tested negative for covid-19. she last saw the president on tuesday. theyre saying shes going to continue on with her schedule, which, of course, is going to mean a busy travel day for her. its important to hear this because while the first lady is also saying shes negative, the reporting is that shes going to be heading back to wilmington because shes a close contact so two people high in the administration testing negative with two different outcome, the f...

Sometimes you dont at the beginning. >> important reporting, jeremy. were good to hear those symptoms are mild. elizabeth cohen to you -- and you see the breaking news, the president has tested positive for covid. his wife, the first lady, dr. jill biden, tested negative this morning. obviously, this changes the presidents schedule. elizabeth cohen, when you look at the fact that hes fully vaccinated, double boosted, paxlovid is available, and hes now going to be taking this medication, there is...

Are you going to be looking for and listening for? >> well, yasmin, just to follow up and real quick point of minor modification here, the anticoagulant that president biden takes for atrial fibrillation, his dose was probably adjusted by dr. oconnor and his white house team, the one point a lot of americans take that medication, want to emphasize that. its important to note that dr. oconnors evaluation back in november of 2021, normal chest x-ray, yasmin, normal heart function as well so those ...

Dr. peter hotez, we thank you. appreciate it. want to bring in now congressman raja and a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thanks for joining us on this and your reaction on learning of the news that the president has, in fact, tested positive for covid. >> well, i wish him a speedy recovery. i had covid earlier this year and i know that its not fun, but in his case im told that theyre mild symptoms, seems like hes tired and hes got a runny nose with a dry cough and so ho...

Taking it, five days, after that, some people get a recurrence of some of their symptoms. so well have to watch that. but the vaccines, with boosting, if youre up to date, that plus paxlovid do provide strong protection against serious disease. you can be discomforted, tired, have a cough, sore throat, runny nose, and feel rather puny for several days, thats for sure. but that can be managed. of course, that would interfere with the presidents schedule in a noteworthy fashion. >> dr. anthony fau...

Of new reporting on this? what can you share? >> reporter: i ran into dr. jha, the white houses coronavirus koord coordinator coordinator. he say joe biden did not have a fever, but experiencing a runny nose and fatigue, as well. so obviously these are the "very mild symptoms" that the white house described this morning. the white house press shop has not provided any additional details, but dr. jha saying the president did not have a fever, experiencing a runny nose and is experiencing some fat...

That works in his favor. the power of that second booster is really helping him. we just heard dr. reiner say these vaccines are not good at keeping you from -- keeping you uninfected from omicron, from ba-5. you might still get it, but they do a really great job of keeping people out of the hospital. and thats really whats important. so if the president, like many people, suffers from, you know, a week or so, or whatever, of mild illness, doesnt feel great, needs to be isolated, thats obviously...

Well now, things can change very quickly. that messaging will be critically important for us. >> and were also learning now that white house press secretary karine jean-pierre, along with the coronavirus response coordinator will be holding a press conference later today to give us an update on the presidents status. well be bringing that to you wherever it is that that happens. lets talk also about the decision to take paxlovid. not everybody that takes positive for covid in fact takes that tre...

Im going to do the proper protocols. i would say when president biden leaves the white house someday hes going to want to say, i tried to educate the american public on how to deal with covid if they got it. so hes going to do all the right things and say all the right thing, meanwhile, joe biden is going to be his surrogate. he may continue to go to pennsylvania where hes due to have a speech. there is a fund-raiser he has tonight, a slate of things obviously will be canceled for the president ...

This new variant. does this variant have the potential to interrupt daily life the way we saw omicron do in the fall and winter, closing offices, canceling events. >> yeah, its a very good question. look, the good news is here we are two and a half years into this pandemic, a year and a half since this administration took office. we have built up the capabilities to avoid all of that. we dont have to shut down businesses. we dont have to shut down schools. we dont have to let this disrupt our li...