Hoarse Biden says it's just a cold he caught from grandson

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden has astatine slightest 1 happening successful communal with thousands of parents and grandparents this winter: He’s picked up a acold from his young grandson.

The president has had an unusually low, scratchy dependable and an occasional cough each week, prompting questions from the property astir his wellness connected Friday. He assured reporters that he’s tested often for COVID-19 and is negative, and that has been dealing with a scratchy pharynx for a overmuch little concerning reason.

“What I person is simply a one-and-a-half twelvemonth aged grandson who had a acold who likes to buss his pop,” helium said. “It's conscionable a cold.”

Biden spent the Thanksgiving play with his household successful Nantucket, and connected Monday, his youngest grandson Beau — named aft Biden’s deceased lad — was astatine the White House to assistance his grandma invited the White House Christmas tree.

Jill Biden picked a sprig disconnected the histrion and gave it to her grandson, on with a kiss.

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Dr. Kevin O’Connor, who has been Biden’s superior attraction doc since 2009, released a enactment Monday affirming that Biden is “experiencing immoderate accrued nasal congestion this week."

“This tin beryllium heard successful his dependable and helium is feeling the colloquially well-known ‘frog successful one’s throat,” O'Connor wrote.

He wrote that Biden was tested for 19 “common respiratory pathogens,” including the flu, COVID-19 and the strep virus, and each came backmost negative. The president is taking communal over-the-counter medications to dainty his symptoms.

Biden had his regular carnal past month astatine Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, wherever his doc released a study declaring him a "healthy, vigorous, 78-year-old male, who is acceptable to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.”

O'Connor investigated Biden for accrued instances of “throat clearing” during nationalist remarks and a stiffening of his gait. O’Connor reported that Biden’s coughing was the effect of gastrointestinal reflux and that the stiffened gait was the effect of a caller diagnosis of “mild peripheral neuropathy,” spinal arthritis and compensation for a breached ft sustained a twelvemonth ago.

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