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Jill Biden is ‘steadily feeling better’ as she recovers from covid and even took some zoom meetings on Thursday to get ready for her fall semester of teaching, her office said.
‘She continues to make progress and is steadily feeling better,’ the first lady’s communications director Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement. ‘This morning she is participating in NOVA meetings via zoom in preparation for the upcoming semester.’
Biden teaches English at a Northern Virginia community college.
She has been making steady process since she tested positive for covid. On Wednesday she was still experiencing ‘cold-like symptoms,’ her office said.
Biden’s office announced she tested positive for covid on Tuesday, which happened as the Biden family wrapped up their vacation on Kiawah Island off the coast of South Carolina.
The first lady, 71, remains on a private home on the island while she recovers. She will return home after she receives two negative covid tests.
She is taking Paxlovid, which helps supress the virus. The first lady is fully vaccinated and doubled-boosted.
President Joe Biden is in Wilmington, Delaware, which is where the Bidens were set to go after their South Carolina trip.
The White House said he would wear a face mask when indoors for the next 10 days as he is considered a ‘close contact’ and that his testing regime would be increased.
The president tested negative for covid on Tuesday and the White House did not respond to DailyMail.com’s inquiry about whether he has been tested since then.
Jill Biden is ‘steadily feeling better’ as she recovers from covid and even took some zoom meetings on Thursday to get ready for her fall semester of teaching – above the first lady visits Schulze Academy in Detroit in July
Jill Biden tested positive for covid on Tuesday; Pictured: The first lady shops at Freshfields Village shops in Kiawah Island, South Carolina on Sunday, August 14, 2022
Jill Biden tested positive for covid while on vacation on Kiawah Island
Jill Biden’s spokesperson Elizabeth Alexander said the first lady tested negative for coronavirus on Monday morning, before she started experiencing ‘cold-like symptoms’ later Monday evening.
Her antigen test, which she took after beginning to experience symptoms, came back negative. But a subsequent PCR test yielded a positive result.
This is Jill Biden’s first time having COVID, the East Wing said.
She kept her distance from her husband when he had the virus last month, staying in Delaware while he was isolating at the White House.
Dr. Jill Biden biked along the beach on Kiawah Island, South Carolina on Sunday morning during a nearly week-long Biden family vacation to the island
Jill Biden teaches English at a northern Virginia community college – above she visits Schulze Academy in Detroit with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in July
Jill Biden shopped with daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen, the wife of Hunter Biden, at the Freshfield Village shops on Kiawah Island on Sunday afternoon
Also joining her for the shopping outing was granddaughter Finnegan, Hunter’s daughter
Jill Biden was scheduled to travel to Florida on Thursday for a Warriors Games event but canceled those plans.
The first lady did not join the president, Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen when they went to the Beach Club on Kiawah Island on Monday night.
The day prior, however, Jill was pictured on a bike ride with President Biden and their granddaughter Finnegan, daughter of Hunter Biden.
Later on Sunday afternoon she was spotted shopping with Finnegan and Cohen at the Freshfields Village shops on Kiawah Island.
President Biden, who is also fully vaccinated and double boosted, first tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, July 21.
After isolating for the minimum five days, Biden tested negative on July 26 and 27.
The president, however, came down with a rare rebound case on July 30, forcing him back into isolation until August 7, when he returned to Delaware to be reunited with his wife.
He left the White House on Tuesday evening to go to the Biden family home in Wilmington.