{"id":1081912,"date":"2021-12-03T19:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T00:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081912"},"modified":"2021-12-03T19:58:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T00:58:34","slug":"white-house-walks-back-joe-biden-claim-he-is-tested-daily-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-walks-back-joe-biden-claim-he-is-tested-daily-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Walks Back Joe Biden Claim He Is Tested Daily for Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-walks-back-joe-biden-claim-he-is-tested-daily-for-coronavirus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081912&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236386246-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><strong>The White House on Friday walked back a claim made by President Joe Biden that he has been \u201ctested daily\u201d for the coronavirus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a test every day to see \u2014 a COVID test. They check me for all the strains,\u201d Biden said to reporters on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The president said he was doing \u201cokay\u201d after repeatedly coughing and sounding hoarser than usual during a speech on the latest job numbers.<\/p>\n<p>He said his condition was the result of a cold he had caught from his young grandson, after spending time with his family during his Thanksgiving vacation.<\/p>\n<p>But the White House clarified later Friday that the president was not tested daily for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden was tested on a \u201cregular basis,\u201d and only three times this week after he started showing symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s physician, Kevin C. O\u2019Connor, said in a memo to reporters after the president spoke noting that the president was suffering from \u201cincreased nasal congestion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msolistparagraph\">\u201cThis can be heard in his voice and he is feeling the colloquially well-known \u2018frog in ones throat,\u2019\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msolistparagraph\">Biden\u2019s physician released a memo Friday afternoon noting the president was tested with a \u201ccomprehensive respiratory panel\u201d which included \u201c19 common respiratory pathogens\u201d including COVID-19, other coronaviruses, influenza, and streptococcus but that it \u201ccame back negative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki also told reporters there was not a change in Biden\u2019s testing protocol and he would not be tested daily.<\/p>\n<p>She indicated Biden would continue his scheduled day with some over-the-counter cold medication, and \u201cprobably some cough drops and some tea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president intends to spend his weekend at the presidential retreat at Camp David.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Friday walked back a claim made by President Joe Biden that he has been \u201ctested daily\u201d for the coronavirus. \u201cI have a test every day to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}