Obama's former physician says White Home avoiding press scrutiny of Biden's well being

EXCLUSIVE — Ex-President Barack Obama’s longtime former physician mentioned the White Home could also be shielding President Joe Biden’s doctor from broader questions in regards to the president's well being following a COVID-19 analysis.

Biden’s COVID-19 case comes as distinguished Democrats voice unease about his age. At 79, Biden is the oldest particular person to ever function president.

“In case you have the doctor, you may ask him questions which might be straying into totally different areas, which could possibly be problematic,” mentioned Dr. David Scheiner, who was Obama's private doctor for greater than twenty years earlier than he turned president, “particularly if he desires to run once more.”

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White Home officers have declined repeated requests to make Biden’s doctor, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, out there to reporters since he started treating the president for COVID-19. They insist that offering a day by day letter from O’Connor ought to suffice.

“You’ve heard from the letter. That's listening to immediately from him,” White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned on Friday. “We’re not taking part in phone right here. You’re listening to immediately from the doctor.”

She demurred when requested whether or not the White Home would make O’Connor out there.

“We really feel that Dr. O’Connor’s statements and his detailed report … is sufficient,” Jean-Pierre responded, noting that Biden’s situation “is gentle” and that “he is ready to proceed to do his work.”

The White Home's COVID-19 response coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, has taken questions alongside Jean-Pierre as an alternative.

A letter from Biden’s doctor Friday famous a temperature of 99.4 levels on Thursday and described his signs as a runny nostril and fatigue with an occasional “free” cough. Biden is utilizing an inhaler as wanted, he added.

Biden, who suffered two mind aneurysms in 1988, can be taking Paxlovid, an antiviral remedy for the virus, and has stopped using his coronary heart medicines for the length.

When former President Donald Trump contracted COVID-19, his doctor, Dr. Sean Conley, took questions from reporters. Critics mentioned Conley ought to have notified the general public about Trump's first optimistic take a look at sooner.

The Biden White Home has additionally been questioned about its transparency relating to the president's well being since testing optimistic for COVID-19.

Talking to the Washington Examiner on Friday, Scheiner mentioned Biden had different well being issues that his physician could possibly be questioned about.

“He’s not getting older that nicely, and he’s had a number of points,” Scheiner mentioned. “His gait shouldn't be fairly the identical. … When he begins speaking, he wanders off into this stuff, and it simply doesn’t appear to at all times make sense."

“He’s not, to say the least, on the high of his recreation — no matter it was,” he added.

The Chicago physician additionally steered that presidential candidates take neurocognitive checks to make sure they don't have underlying psychological or vascular issues with their brains.

“He’s going to be 80 in November. That doesn’t assist,” Scheiner mentioned of Biden. “That is maybe a very powerful job in the entire world.”

Obama rebuked Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-MS) when, as a 2020 congressional candidate, the previous White Home doctor tweeted that Biden wanted a cognitive take a look at.

"That is why I've to specific my disappointment on the low-cost shot you took at Joe Biden through Twitter," the previous president wrote in an e-mail to Jackson, who had handled him as president. "It was unprofessional and beneath the workplace that you just as soon as held."