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0:24Now PlayingPresident Joe Biden’s bout with Covid-19 shows the evolution of the nation’s fight against the pandemic, White House officials said, expressing confidence that the 79-year-old president will avoid the worst of the disease thanks to vaccines and a therapeutic drug largely unavailable before he took office.
Biden’s infection, though, shows the enduring nature of the pandemic he had promised as a presidential candidate to contain, if not defeat. And after Covid killed millions of people worldwide, most of them elderly, the president’s risk of severe illness -- while very low, according to medical experts -- isn’t zero.
He is experiencing mild symptoms and has begun taking Pfizer Inc.’s Paxlovid treatment. He will isolate at the White House while continuing his duties via telephone and Zoom until he tests negative.
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