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 Biden's Covid-19 symptoms were still mild as of late Thursday night, top White House adviser says

President Joe Biden's Covid- 19 symptoms remained mild as of late Thursday and he continues to recover at the White House, a top counsel told CNN on Friday. 
 

" I got an update last night at 1000p.m. and he was doing just OK ," saidDr. Ashish Jha, White House Covid- 19 response fellow, during an interview with John Berman on CNN's" New Day." Jha added that he'd touch base with the White House medical platoon and speak with the President" directly this morning." 

 Biden's symptoms, Jha said, were" principally the same" as of Thursday night. 

" The symptoms were principally the same-- again, he is got a little watery nose, he is got a bit of a dry cough," Jha said. 

 Biden tested positive for Covid- 19 on Thursday, getting the alternate US chairman to contract the contagion during the two- and-a-half time epidemic. In a videotape posted to Twitter, Biden told Americans that he's" doing well" and that he was continuing to work while in insulation at the White House. 

 

 The President is completely vaccinated and doubly boosted, and has been specified Paxlovid-- Pfizer's antiviral medicine-- because his advanced age makes him high- threat for passing severe illness. Biden is 79 times old. 

 

 But to this point, Biden has only educated mild symptoms, according to a statement from White House croaker

 Dr. KevinO'Connor and a briefing from Jha and press clerk Karine Jean- Pierre on Thursday. The brace is anticipated to speak to journalists again Friday autumn. 

Jha said they still" don't know important" about where the President contracted the contagion but said that dogging was underway for any close connections of the President. He said he wasn't apprehensive of any posterior cases. First lady Jill Biden, who's considered a close contact but has tested negative, will stay in Delaware through the weekend and" following( US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) guidelines," he said. 

 

 Asked again whether any of Biden's symptoms were getting worse, Jha told CNN," Nope. As of 1000p.m. last night, no. it was the same symptoms, about the same position of mildness. But I will check in with them( the White House medical unit) this morning, I will check in with him this morning." 

 Jha played down enterprises that the White House press fraternity has yet to be briefed directly by Biden's croaker

 ,Dr. KevinO'Connor, after one intelligencer at Thursday's briefing said the White House is playing a game of telephone. 

"Dr.O'Connor is his particular croaker

 . You have heard fromDr.O'Connor in the letter. We're completely committed to translucency then. You are going to hear every day fromDr.O'Connor through written communication. He was going to put out his own statement with this assessment of how the chairman's doing," he said. 

 

 He said that numerous officers are in contact with Biden and" the American people will have a veritably full complete picture of how the President is doing." 

 Pressed again by Berman on whether there were plans to makeO'Connor available to the press or the public, Jha said thatO'Connor" is going to be participating his information" and that a" variety of administration officers" would partake information. 

White House officers have been preparing for months for what numerous viewed as the ineluctability that Biden would come down with Covid. 

 A surge of cases has swept Washington through the spring and summer and as further and further of his top officers and members of his family contracted Covid, officers came to believe it was possible the President himself would get sick, indeed as they took way to shield him from the contagion. 

 

 officers had a loose plan in place for the day Biden tested positive, including informing the public when the tests were verified and releasing a letter from Biden's croaker

 -- which both took place on Thursday.