First Lady Jill Biden Tests Positive for COVID-19

The White House has disclosed that the First Lady of the United States, Jill Biden, has received a positive result for COVID-19. The announcement was made this evening. She is currently experiencing only mild symptoms. She will remain at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware,” CNN quoted Biden's spokesperson Elizabeth Alexanderas saying in a statement on Monday night. President Joe Biden, 80, tested negative, according to the White House.

White House COVID-19 Protocols Unchanged Following Jill Biden's Diagnosis

An administration official told CNN that there were no changes to White House COVID-19 protocols or to the President’s schedule at this time. The diagnosis of the 72-year-old First Lady comes amid a busy week for the President, who delivered a Labor Day speech in Philadelphia earlier in the day. He is scheduled to present the Medal of Honor to an Army captain in a White House ceremony Tuesday before departing for the G20 Summit in New Delhi, India. The First Lady had tested positive for COVID-19 while vacationing in South Carolina in August 2022, just a month after the President was diagnosed with the virus. Both experienced rebound cases shortly after being treated with Paxlovid.

In the US, there were about four new hospital admissions for every 100,000 people in the week ending August 19, which is considered low, according to the CDC (1^✔ ✔Trusted Source
Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19-Associated Hospitalizations

Go to source). While seven counties had high levels of COVID-19, 117 counties -- about 3.6 percent of the country -- were in the medium threshold.

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1. Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19-Associated Hospitalizations - (https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/covidnet/covid19_3.html)

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