coronavirus response

After isolating for five days with mild COVID-19 symptoms, President Joe Biden said he was “feeling great” and credited vaccines, boosters and therapeutic treatments like Paxlovid for his swift recovery.

During a House select committee meeting Thursday, former White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx testified that radiologist and political commentator Dr. Scott Atlas pushed former President Trump to enact ‘dangerous’ pandemic policies.

Dr. Deborah Birx, former coronavirus response coordinator for the Trump Administration, testified Thursday before a congressional committee about early missteps in the pandemic. “Creating the sense among the American people that [COVID-19] would… have the fatalities equivalent to flu created a sense among the American people that this was not going to be a serious pandemic.”

President Joe Biden detailed Thursday his administration’s efforts to double its procurement of rapid COVID-19 tests and make high-quality masks available for free as coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide.