President Joe Biden is 79, but he has received 2 Covid booster vaccines, already started Paxlovid and is in relatively good health otherwise.
“He is a healthy 79-year-old man who has been diagnosed rapidly, who’s having mild symptoms, who’s vaccinated and is on antiviral therapy. All of us expect a good outcome,” said Dr. Arturo Casadevall, a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
The amount of virus in a person’s body, or viral load, is highest around when symptoms start, he said. So once Biden’s symptoms start to improve, he said, that will be a good indicator that he is on the mend. He said it’s unlikely the president will develop pneumonia because omicron tends to result in upper respiratory illness.
Jha said Biden takes Eliquis, a blood thinner, and Crestor, a cholesterol-lowering medication, both of which must be stopped during the Paxlovid treatment. Paxlovid contains a drug called ritonavir, which slows the speed at which the body breaks down medications. Statins like CrestorExperts said there is a chance that Biden develops long Covid — symptoms that last several months or longer — but that risk is diminished by the fact that he is vaccinated, double boosted and taking an antiviral.
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