White House downplays Biden’s ‘lingering’ COVID-19 cough

Christian Datoc, White House correspondent for The Washington Examiner

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters not to be concerned by President Joe Biden’s coughing fit during a bill signing Tuesday.

Biden emerged from two-week COVID-19 isolation over the weekend following a coronavirus rebound infection, and his Tuesday remarks were repeatedly punctuated by heavy, loose coughing and nose blowing.