Joe Biden continues to recover from Covid-19 after ending his 2024 campaign

According to his doctor, President Joe Biden’s “symptoms of Covid-19 have almost completely disappeared.”

Biden visited his former campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, during a visit by Vice President Kamala Harris, whose White House bid Biden is supporting.

The president tried to cheer up the staff by urging them to give “every bit” of their “heart and soul” to Ms. Harris.

Biden also vowed to hit the road to campaign for his vice president.

“If I didn’t have Covid, I’d be standing there right now,” Biden said.

The president was last seen in public on Wednesday evening, after arriving at a U.S. Air Force base in Dover, Delaware, after testing positive for Covid-19 earlier that day while campaigning in Las Vegas.

He then traveled to his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The White House says Mr. Biden plans to return to the White House on Tuesday afternoon.

Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, said the president had taken his 10th dose of the coronavirus drug Paxlovid on Monday morning and was continuing to perform all of his presidential duties.

“His symptoms have almost completely resolved. His pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and temperature remain absolutely normal,” Dr. O’Connor wrote.

“His oxygen saturation remains excellent on room air. His lungs remain clear.”

The White House said Biden received separate briefings Monday from homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall and national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

Both briefings took place virtually.

Biden’s public schedule for the week remains empty as he recovers from the virus, but he did say in his letter Sunday that he plans to deliver an address to the nation this week to discuss his decision to end his candidacy.

Biden plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Thursday, a U.S. official said on condition of anonymity ahead of the White House announcement.

Biden also plans to meet later this week at the White House with the families of Americans still being held hostage in Gaza, according to a statement from the group of families that met privately with Sullivan earlier on Monday.

It would be the second time Biden has met the families.

The families again publicly urged Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire agreement that would release their loved ones.

In late May, Biden proposed a three-phase deal aimed at returning the remaining hostages taken by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack on Israel and potentially creating a permanent ceasefire to end the nine-month war in Gaza.

“We continue to work to end the war in Gaza,” Biden said during his call to campaign headquarters.

“I will work very closely with the Israelis and the Palestinians to try to figure out how we can end the war in Gaza, bring peace to the Middle East and bring all those hostages home. I think we are on the verge of doing that.”