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Barack Obama tests positive for COVID-19
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Former President Barack Obama introduced Sunday he examined optimistic for COVID-19.
“I simply examined optimistic for COVID. I’ve had a scratchy throat for a pair days, however am feeling fantastic in any other case. Michelle and I are grateful to be vaccinated and boosted, and he or she has examined damaging,” Obama mentioned in a tweet.
“It’s a reminder to get vaccinated when you haven’t already, at the same time as circumstances go down,” the previous president added.
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Obama has been a longtime proponent of COVID-19 vaccination. In December 2020, he joined former Presidents George W. Bush and Invoice Clinton in asserting his willingness to get the coronavirus vaccine publicly when it turned out there to make sure its security. Former President Jimmy Carter additionally got here out in assist of the vaccine.
Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Invoice Clinton, and Jimmy Carter, pose within the Oval Workplace of the White Home.
(AP Picture/J. Scott Applewhite)
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“Michelle and I acquired vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19 as a result of we all know it’s the easiest way to beat this pandemic, defend each other, and get the nation again up and working once more,” Obama wrote on Fb in March 2021, accompanied by footage of himself and former first woman Michelle Obama getting the shot. “So I hope you’ll get the vaccine as quickly because it’s out there to you. It might save your life.”
Throughout an interview on SiriusXM’s “The Joe Madison Present” in December 2020, Obama pushed again when requested about African Individuals probably being skeptical about taking a COVID-19 vaccine given previous medical experiments on the group.
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“Individuals like Anthony Fauci, who I do know, and I’ve labored with, I belief fully,” Obama mentioned. “So if Anthony Fauci tells me this vaccine is secure, and may vaccinate, you already know, immunize you from getting COVID, completely, I will take it.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses, speaks throughout a Senate Well being, Training, Labor, and Pensions Committee listening to on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
(AP Picture/Alex Brandon)
“What I do not belief is getting COVID,” Obama mentioned. “I believe at this level, significantly within the African American group, we’re — African Individuals, Hispanics, Native Individuals — we now have the very best dying charges from this factor, and are most uncovered and most susceptible, partially as a result of we now have loads of preexisting situations.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impression on Black, Hispanic and Native American communities, particularly in regard to hospitalizations and deaths, based on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.