在...之后独自工作五天在白宫，乔·拜登总统周三再次露面，并告诉美国公众，他轻微的新冠肺炎疫情证明了疫苗和疗法的力量。

“即使你感染了COVID，你也可以避免感染严重的病例，”拜登周三上午晚些时候在玫瑰园说，这是他在连续阴性抗原测试结果后首次公开露面。

在大约10分钟的讲话中，奥巴马总统将自己的复苏与他所称的政府在应对疫情问题上的成功努力联系在一起。

“你现在可以预防大多数COVID死亡，这是因为拜登政府在过去一年投资并分发了三种免费工具:加强注射、在家测试[和]易于使用的有效治疗。我们毫无畏惧地熬过了COVID，我也毫无畏惧地熬过来了，因为有了这些重要的救生工具，我感到非常轻微的不适，”他说。

“你不需要成为总统，就能让这些工具用于你的国防，”他说。

他将这一经历与前任唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)进行了对比，后者也感染了COVID，但在疫情的更早阶段。

President Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2022.

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“当我的前任得了COVID时，他不得不被直升机送到沃尔特·里德医疗中心。他病得很重。谢天谢地，他康复了，”很少直接讨论特朗普的拜登说。“当我得到COVID时，我在楼上工作。”

特朗普和拜登一样，在他从病毒中康复后也呼吁公众不要屈服于恐惧:“不要害怕乔维德。不要让它主宰你的生活，”特朗普当时在社交媒体上说。

拜登星期三在玫瑰园表示，乐观的理由很明显长达数年的疫情的代价.(没有提到的是拜登和特朗普政府在测试、卫生基础设施和鼓励全面接种疫苗方面面临的问题。)

“当我来到这里时，COVID每天都在杀害成千上万的美国人。现在情况不同了，”拜登说。“你可以按照我的方式生活，没有恐惧——注射疫苗，接受检查和治疗。与此同时，本届政府将保持警惕。现在，我们有工具来防止你患严重疾病或死于COVID，但我们不会止步于此。”

他的评论标志着他的白宫信息的延续，即尽管冠状病毒会长期存在——这是许多公共卫生专家长期以来一直警告和反对的——但对许多人来说，生活可以在很大程度上恢复正常。如果不是全部，美国人。

拜登说:“让我们从我们历史上最黑暗的时刻中走出来，为未来带来希望和光明。”。

拜登是如何得病的

总统可能有高传染性BA.5亚变异体白宫表示，他的症状包括流鼻涕、咳嗽、喉咙痛、轻微发烧和身体疼痛。拜登的医生凯文·奥康纳(Kevin O'Connor)在拜登感染期间从未报告过他的脉搏、血压、呼吸频率或氧饱和度有任何异常，这是在周四首次发现的。

拜登完成了他的Paxlovid的五天疗程奥康纳在周三早上的一份备忘录中写道，这是一项关键的COVID治疗，随后由白宫发布。

总统周二和周三的阴性测试距离总统上周四早上的首次阳性测试不到一周。

拜登周一告诉记者，他的所有测试结果都是“好的”，“正在进行中”

自周三起，拜登将结束他的严格隔离措施，自确诊以来，他一直被限制在白宫官邸。根据奥康纳的说法，他将根据需要继续佩戴一个“合身”的面具10天。

他在隔离状态下工作，周一在Twitter上发布了一张他和他的狗Commander的照片，称他“今天早上和人类最好的同事通了几个电话。”

周一，拜登在康复期间接受记者采访时表示，是指挥官独自充当了他的闹钟。(第一夫人吉尔·拜登和白宫猫暂时搬到了特拉华州。)

总统周三在推特上发布了一张他的阴性测试照片，并写道他将返回椭圆形办公室。周三，记者们看到他戴着惯常的飞行员太阳镜和面具慢跑出了住所;他的声音似乎比最近几天有了明显的改善，没有咳嗽。

奥康纳在周三的备忘录中写道，拜登“继续非常认真地保护行政官邸、白宫、特勤局和其他工作人员，他们的职责需要任何(尽管社交距离)接近他”。

鉴于Paxlovid“反弹”的可能性，拜登将增加他的测试频率，奥康纳写道，他指的是一种看似罕见但越来越多报道的现象，即COVID症状复发或在测试阴性后出现新的阳性病毒测试。

总统完全接种了疫苗，并接受了两次加强注射，但在79岁时被认为有更高的严重疾病风险。

白宫新冠肺炎应对协调员Ashish Jha博士在拜登确诊后强调，所有美国人都应该利用疫苗接种和治疗课程。

杰哈在周日接受美国广播公司(ABC)的《本周》(This Week)采访时说:“这是一位总统，他接种了双重疫苗，接受了双重强化，接受了美国人普遍可以获得的治疗，目前患有轻度呼吸道疾病。”。“这真是一个好消息，这是每个人都可以获得的疫苗和治疗方法。人们出门接种疫苗，并在感染时利用这些治疗手段，这一点非常重要。”

在拜登确诊之前，第一夫人和副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯与拜登进行了一段时间的接触，之后两人的新冠肺炎检测结果都呈阴性。

Biden compares his COVID recovery to Trump's hospitalization in Rose Garden speech

Afterfive days working in isolationat the White House, President Joe Biden reemerged on Wednesday -- and told the American public that his mild bout of COVID-19 was a testament to the power of vaccines and therapeutics.

"Even if you get COVID, you can avoid winding up with a severe case," Biden said from the Rose Garden late Wednesday morning, in his first public appearance after back-to-back negative antigen test results.

Speaking for roughly 10 minutes, the president tied his own recovery to what he called his administration's successful efforts in tackling the pandemic.

"You can now prevent most COVID deaths, and that's because of three free tools the Biden administration has invested in and distributed this past year: booster shots, at-home tests [and] easy-to-use, effective treatments. We got through COVID with no fear, I got through it with no fear, a very mild discomfort because of these essential, life-saving tools," he said.

"You don't need to be president to get these tools used for your defense," he said.

He contrasted that experience with predecessor Donald Trump, who also became sick with COVID but at a much earlier stage in the pandemic.

"When my predecessor got COVID, he had to get helicoptered to Walter Reed Medical Center. He was severely ill. Thankfully, he recovered," said Biden who rarely discusses Trump directly. "When I got COVID, I worked from upstairs."

Trump, like Biden, also urged the public not to give into fear after he recovered from the virus: "Don't be afraid of Covid. Don't let it dominate your life," Trump said on social media at the time.

In the Rose Garden Wednesday, Biden said the reason for optimism was clear while acknowledgingthe toll of the years-long pandemic. (Left unsaid were the problems both Biden and Trump's administrations faced with testing, health infrastructure and encouraging comprehensive vaccinations.)

"COVID was killing thousands of Americans a day when I got here. That isn't the case anymore," Biden said. "You can live without fear by doing what I did -- get boosted, get tested and get treatment. At the same time, my administration remains vigilant. Right now, we have the tools to keep you from getting severely ill or dying from COVID, but we're not stopping there."

His comments mark a continuation of his White House's message that while the coronavirus is here to stay -- something many public health experts have long been warning and fighting against -- life can go largely back to normal for many,if not all, Americans.

"Let's keep emerging from one of the darkest moments of our history with hope and light for what can come," Biden said.

How Biden got sick

The president likely had thehighly contagious BA.5 subvariant, and his symptoms included a runny nose, cough, sore throat, a slight fever and body aches, the White House has said. Kevin O'Connor, Biden's physician, never reported any abnormalities in Biden's pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate or oxygen saturation throughout his infection, which was first discovered on Thursday.

Biden finished hisfive-day course of Paxlovid, a key COVID treatment, 36 hours ago, O'Connor wrote in a memo Wednesday morning that was subsequently released by the White House.

The president's negative tests on Tuesday and Wednesday come less than one week after the president's first positive test last Thursday morning.

Biden told reporters on Monday that all his test results were "good" and "on the button."

As of Wednesday Biden is ending his strict isolation measures after being confined to the White House residence since his diagnosis. He will continue to wear a "well-fitting" mask as needed for 10 days, according to O'Connor.

He worked while in isolation, posting a photograph on Twitter Monday of him and his dog, Commander, saying he "took some calls this morning with man's best co-worker."

Speaking virtually with reporters on Monday while he recovered, Biden said it was Commander who was acting as his alarm clock in isolation. (First lady Jill Biden and the White House cat had temporarily relocated to Delaware.)

The president on Wednesday tweeted a picture of one of his negative tests and wrote that he was returning to the Oval Office. Reporters saw him -- in his customary aviator sunglasses and a mask -- jog out of the residence on Wednesday; his voice seemed notably improved from recent days, without a cough.

Biden "continues to be very specifically conscientious to protect any of the Executive Residence, White House, Secret Service and other staff whose duties require any (albeit socially distanced) proximity to him," O'Connor wrote in his memo on Wednesday.

Biden will increase his testing cadence in light of the possibility of a Paxlovid "rebound," O'Connor wrote, referring to a seemingly rare but increasingly reported phenomenon in which COVID symptoms recur or there is the development of a new positive viral test after having tested negative.

The president is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots, but at the age of 79 was considered to be at a higher risk for severe illness.

Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, stressed after Biden's diagnosis that all Americans should take advantage of vaccinations and treatments courses.

"This is a president who's double-vaccinated, double-boosted, getting treatments that are widely available to Americans and has at this moment a mild respiratory illness," Jha told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday. "This is really good news, and this is both vaccines and treatments that are available to everyone. Really important that people go out and get vaccinated and avail themselves of these treatments if they get infected."

The first lady and Vice President Kamala Harris both tested negative for COVID-19 after spending time with Biden before his diagnosis.