The White House insists it has been transparent with the public about President Joe Biden’s coronavirus diagnosis despite not making Biden’s personal doctor available to the press.
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“I wholeheartedly disagree,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday. “We’re doing this very differently, very differently, I would argue, than the last administration.”
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Earlier, Jean-Pierre defended White House physician Kevin O’Connor’s absence from the briefing, contending she was accompanied by Ashish Jha, the administration’s COVID-19 response coordinator, who is also a doctor.
O’Connor will provide “daily statements,” Jean-Pierre added after being pushed on contradictions between O’Connor’s letter and she and Jha about the onset of Biden’s symptoms.
“I don’t think this is a game of telephone,” she said.
Former President Donald Trump and his White House aides were less transparent when he contracted COVID-19.
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Trump got the respiratory illness in September 2020 before vaccines and treatments were available. He and his staffers delayed disclosing his positive test result, even attending his first debate with Biden.
