Joe Biden Gets Covid in the Weirdest Week in Politics Ever

President Joe Biden tested affirmative for covid-19 connected Wednesday, according to an announcement from the White House. And portion the White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden is experiencing “mild” symptoms, it’s not yet wide however soon the president volition beryllium capable to get backmost connected the run way successful what is already a chaotic and uncertain race.

“Earlier contiguous pursuing his archetypal lawsuit successful Las Vegas, President Biden tested affirmative for COVID-19,” Jean-Pierre said successful a connection posted online. “He is vaccinated and boosted and helium is experiencing mild symptoms.”

“He volition beryllium returning to Delaware wherever helium volition self-isolate and volition proceed to transportation retired each of his duties afloat during that time,” she continued. “The White House volition supply regular updates connected the President’s presumption arsenic helium continues to transportation retired the afloat duties of the bureau portion successful isolation.”

Biden was scheduled to look astatine the UnidosUS normal successful Las Vegas, Nevada connected Wednesday and UnidosUS President and CEO Janet Murguia was the archetypal to marque the announcement that Biden would not beryllium appearing due to the fact that helium has covid, according to the Review-Journal newspaper.

The information that Biden contracted covid-19 shouldn’t beryllium a surprise, fixed the information that the full West is experiencing a surge successful cases this summer, according to wastewater sampling information compiled by the CDC. In fact, your humble blogger predicted exactly this scenario erstwhile Biden gave a code successful Madison, Wisconsin connected July 5 successful effect to calls that helium should driblet out.

Covid-19 is little deadly than it was astatine the commencement of the pandemic, but astatine 81 years old, Biden is inactive successful a higher hazard radical than the wide colonisation for superior unwellness and death. Biden’s property and cognitive quality were already a large question people successful his run and this volition surely complicate his determination to enactment successful the race. But with assassins trying to instrumentality retired Republican campaigner Donald Trump, and illness doing its champion against Biden, it’s truly anyone’s conjecture what whitethorn hap successful this race. It’s going to beryllium a precise stressful 4 months, that’s for sure.