President Joe Biden was confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 on July 21, 2022. Biden had received four doses of vaccine, but why is he still infected with BA.5?
Just a few days after his initial recovery, on July 30 Biden got COVID again: White House doctor Kevin O’Connor said that it was a Paxlovid rebound case. Why doesn’t the current antiviral drug work on Biden?
What makes his BA.5 infection so difficult to cure?
Is there any other efficacious treatment modality?
Dr. Yuhong Dong, an infectious disease and antiviral drug development expert, gives us an in depth answer.
18 Times More Infectious
What Biden has been infected with is BA.5, the variant causing a new wave of infections in the United States….