File Photo: US President Joe Biden gives a thumbs up on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, D.C., US, on Wednesday, July 20, 2022.
Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is feeling "much, much better" after testing positive for the coronavirus, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator said Sunday, confirming that the 79-year-old U.S.
leader was infected with a highly contagious variant spreading throughout the country.``It is the BA.5 variant ... but thank goodness our vaccines and therapeutics work well against it, which is why I think the president's doing well," Dr.
Ashish Jha told CBS' "Face the Nation.""I checked in with his team late last night. He was feeling well. He had a good day yesterday.