Jill Biden tested negative Monday during her routine test and then developed “cold-like symptoms” Monday night, according to her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander. “A rapid antigen test came back negative, but the PCR test came back positive,” Alexander said in a statement. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden exit Marine One at Charleston Executive Airport, SC, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP, FILE She has been prescribed the antiviral treatment Paxlovid, which President Joe Biden also took after testing positive last month. President Biden first tested positive for COVID-19 on July 21, with symptoms including a cough and sore throat. He isolated himself and completed a five-day course of Paxlovid before testing negative. He then experienced a rebound infection, again testing positive. On August 6, the president’s doctor said that Biden had tested negative and it was clear that he would break his isolation. Jill Biden, who is double vaccinated and twice boosted, has “mild symptoms,” Alexander said. First Lady Jill Biden speaks at the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) 125th Anniversary Conference in National Harbor, Md., June 17, 2022. Susan Walsh/AP, FILE President Biden, who has been vacationing with his wife and family on South Carolina’s Kiawah Island, is considered a close contact and will wear a mask while indoors for the next 10 days and when in close contact with others , according to the White House. The president tested negative for COVID-19 Tuesday morning, and his tests will increase in light of the first lady’s positive test. Jill Biden will self-isolate for at least five days. He will remain “at a private residence in South Carolina and return home after receiving two consecutive negative tests for COVID,” Alexander said. Her close contacts have been notified, Alexander added. ABC News’ Molly Nagle contributed to this report.
