Joe Biden ‘not completely out of the woods’ after negative COVID-19 test

 

Despite testing negative for coronavirus after debating President Trump, Joe Biden — and anyone who came into contact with President Trump in recent days — “is not completely out of the woods yet,” doctors say.

Tests can come negative for people with a replacement infection who aren’t yet shedding enough virus to detect, explained Dr. Michael Mina, an communicable disease epidemiologist at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, within the wake of the news that Trump and First Lady Melania Trump had contracted COVID-19.

Trump, who is reportedly tested daily for the virus, presumably tested negative when he debated Biden Tuesday. If the virus was too weak to point out abreast of a test, it’s unlikely the infection was strong enough to transmit,

But doctors warn that the virus grows quickly, and albeit Trump tested negative on the morning of the talk, “he could are shedding virus at a high rate on Tuesday evening,” Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of drugs at the University of California San Francisco, told the outlet.

“The median time period is 5 days so he should test again on the weekend.”

Debate moderator Chris Wallace said he would wait to be tested to avoid getting a false negative result.

US Attorney General Bill Barr has also tested negative thus far, consistent with a report.