First lady Dr. Jill Bidens positive Covid test does not appear to portend a major return to pandemicera protocols at the White House . Masks are no longer required or ubiquitous social distancing has been retired and few employees work from home . Despite an uptick in cases and some highprofile positive tests, incidents remain significantly lower than the last time the president and first lady tested positive for the virus last summer . The president tested negative in two separate tests on Monday and Tuesday and in a return to his practice from earlier in the administration began wearing a mask indoors when in close proximity to others . A Medal of Honor ceremony for an . yearold Vietnam War veteran in a crowded East Room continued as scheduled albeit with Biden wearing a . mask as he entered he later removed it during the ceremony including when standing in close to the recipient . The White House press secretary Karine JeanPierre said Tuesday that the new booster shots will target a new strain of the virus that will be released mid-September as the new Covid boosters are available as the target for the new virus . The new booster shot will be in mid- September . September .September . September as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dont recommend daily tests for those considered close contacts of those who have tested positive to those who are considered close . contacts of the first lady to be tested positive. The president and the first person who has tested positive in late September. The new vaccine will be available in early August . The New Covid booster shots are available. The White. September. CDC data shows there were about four people in late August. The CDC data is considered low to CDC. in August which is considered high to CDC’s high levels of Covid cases.
Jill Biden’s bout with Covid-19 upends White House’s sense of normal
