By: Naomi Lim
August 2, 2022: Joe Biden's cough has returned as he recovers from a rebound COVID-19 infection, according to the White House.
"The president continues to feel well, though he is experiencing a bit of a return of a loose cough,” Dr. Kevin O'Connor, Biden's personal physician, wrote Tuesday. "He remains fever-free and in good spirits."
O'Connor's Tuesday note clears up the confusion caused by contradictions between his Monday morning letter and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's briefing that afternoon. Jean-Pierre mentioned O'Connor saying Biden had “no reoccurring symptoms," but then went on to refer to "lingering" side effects.
"As we know, when all of us have had COVID, you do have a little bit of a lingering cough, right? You do have a little bit of maybe a lingering sniffles," she said. "That's not uncommon to have. And so that's what we are talking about."
She added: "You all have known him for some time and covered him — he tends to have a dry cough. That is not unusual. So that is what I'm talking about. He tends to have a dry cough, which you all have heard before."
Biden had no public events scheduled Monday until the White House announced his evening address to the nation regarding the U.S. killing of al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri in Afghanistan.
The White House disclosed Biden's rebound case last Saturday after heralding his negative test results following five days of isolation earlier in the week.
Source: The Washington Examiner
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