{"id":1426015,"date":"2022-04-08T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426015"},"modified":"2022-04-08T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:14:48","slug":"white-house-sets-stage-for-joe-biden-to-get-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-sets-stage-for-joe-biden-to-get-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Sets Stage for Joe Biden to Get 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\">20<\/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-sets-stage-for-joe-biden-to-get-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=1426015&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The White House on Friday set the stage for President Joe Biden to contract the coronavirus, acknowledging it was a strong possibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike anyone else, the President may at some point test positive for COVID,\u201d White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during the daily briefing on Friday.<\/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 has received four shots of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, and continues to follow precautions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but has stopped wearing a mask in public while at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite all the precautions we take and even with the president being double boosted, he could still test positive for COVID,\u201d Psaki acknowledged. \u201c[T]hat is a possibility and we want to be transparent with the American public about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She defended the president for hosting indoor events at the White House despite cases of the virus spreading among people attending the events, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe risk assess just like everybody out in the country and it\u2019s important for him to be able to continue to do his presidential duties, now and even if he tests positive for the future,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p>She declined to say when Biden would be tested again for the virus, and said it was up to the presidential physician.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will provide the information to you when he tests negative\u2026 or either way of course,\u201d Psaki added.<\/p>\n<p>She also defended the Biden administration\u2019s hosting over a hundred people at the White House to celebrate the confirmation of the president\u2019s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutside, you can benefit significantly being outside, that\u2019s why we had the event outside today,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki also defended Vice President Kamala Harris for hugging Jackson, despite coming into close contact with someone infected by the virus earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had an emotional moment, which is understandable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Friday set the stage for President Joe Biden to contract the coronavirus, acknowledging it was a strong possibility. \u201cLike anyone else, the President may at some<\/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-1426015","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\/1426015","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=1426015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426015\/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=1426015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}