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Of new reporting on this? what can you share? >> reporter: i ran into dr. jha, the white house's 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 fatigue. so those are the symptoms. i was trying to ask additional questions, and the white house pres...

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 that's really what's important. so if the president, like many people, suffers from, you know, a week or so, or whatever, of mild illness, doesn't feel great, needs to be isolated, that's obviously not such a big deal. what we really want is to keep people out of the hospital. and the fact th...

Well now, things can change very quickly. that messaging will be critically important for us. >> and we're 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 president's status. we'll be bringing that to you wherever it is that that happens. let's talk also about the decision to take paxlovid. not everybody that takes positive for covid in fact takes that treatment. why do you think in this instance, his doctors, the folks that are making this decision ...

I'm going to do the proper protocols. i would say when president biden leaves the white house someday he's going to want to say, i tried to educate the american public on how to deal with covid if they got it. so he's 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 he's due to have a speech. there is a fund-raiser he has tonight, a slate of things obviously will be canceled for the president but jill biden can replace him at some of these if necessary. >> douglas brinkley, we appreciate...

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, it's 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 don't have to shut down businesses. we don't have to shut down schools. we don't have to let this disrupt our lives, but we've got to use the tools that we have. right? we've got to make sure people are up to...