At a news briefing, US administration spokeswoman Karine Jean Pierre shocked reporters by reading out loud the phrase “that President Biden is still alive.
A second embarrassment on the same subject occurred later, as Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports: a White House spokesman told reporters that Biden works more than eight hours a day, adding that his appetite was not reduced and “Biden bragged about an empty plate of crumbs while talking to his advisers”.
The health condition of the coronavirus-infected Biden continues to improve, but he suffers from a sore throat, cough and body aches, his treating doctor added to the picture.
It was all part of a carefully planned administration effort to portray the commander-in-chief who has not quit his day job despite testing positive for the coronavirus and being sent to the isolation ward at the White House residence, the Associated Press concluded.