President Joe Biden will get his fifth shot of protection against the coronavirus in late October, according to White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha.
In addition to his four previous shots, Biden recovered from a mild bout with the disease in August. Jha said protocol is to wait three months after recovery to receive another shot, thus the late October timeline.
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“The advice that all of us are giving is: People should wait three months after they’ve had their infection,” Jha said during a press briefing. “If you do the math of when the president had his infection, it’s somewhere around late October. We’re going to find a specific date when the president is going to get it. I don’t have a specific date to mention because he’s still in that three-month window. Same thing for the first lady.”
Jha appeared in the Brady Press Briefing Room on Tuesday to tout bivalent vaccines designed to combat the latest variants of the virus.
Biden received his fourth shot on March 30, then tested positive for the disease on July 21. His case was mild, and he continued working while in isolation before being released Aug. 7 following two negative tests.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved Pfizer’s 30-microgram bivalent booster shot on Sept. 1 for people over the age of 12. Jha said that between 13 million and 15 million people had taken the newest shot in September, though he expects that number to rise significantly in October, Biden among them.
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“We’re following the science here,” Jha said. “The evidence suggests that waiting a few months after you’ve had your infection is optimal.”
