Fox News
After President Joe Biden gladly announced Wednesday that he tested negative for COVID-19 and is no longer isolating, Fox News host Sean Hannity called it “good news,” only to then say the strain of the virus that Biden fought off was “much, much weaker” than the one then-President Donald Trump had in the fall of 2020.
Biden tested positive last Thursday, and over the weekend his physician said he likely contracted the BA.5 subvariant that currently makes up the vast majority of cases nationally. The 79-year-old president, who has had four vaccination shots, was treated with an antiviral manufactured by Pfizer called Paxlovid.
“Unfortunately, this COVID is still with us, as it has been for two and a half years. But our fight against COVID is making a huge difference. What’s different now is our ability to protect ourselves from serious illness due to COVID,” Biden told White House staff in the Rose Garden.