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Martin Pengelly in New York

Fauci says protocols to protect Biden ‘pretty strong’ amid rash of Covid cases

President Joe Biden signing H.R. 3076, the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, during a ceremony in the sState Dining Room on 5 April.
President Joe Biden signing H.R. 3076, the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, during a ceremony in the sState Dining Room on 5 April. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

A rash of coronavirus infections among elites in Washington that came close to Joe Biden shows a new reality facing Americans including the president, his chief medical adviser said: that life will involve daily decisions about individual risk from Covid.

“It’s going to be a person’s decision about the individual risk they’re going to take,” Dr Anthony Fauci told ABC’s This Week, adding that protocols protecting the president were “pretty strong”.

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