Joe Biden tests positive for COVID | 17 Jul y 2024 | Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID while campaigning and trying to fight back against widespread calls for him to drop out of the 2024 race due to his age. The 81-year-old president was forced to cancel a speech in Las Vegas after taking a test when he started getting a runny nose and coughing. As he slowly boarded Air Force One maskless [Oh, but healthy eight-year-olds had to mask up for eight hours every day in school, though, right?] up the lower stairs for the flight back to the East Coast to begin isolation, he gave a thumbs-up and said: "I feel good." The White House physician said Biden was feeling "general malaise" on Thursday and will now self-isolate in Delaware. The West Wing added that Biden is vaccinated and boosted, and took a dose of Paxlovid on Wednesday afternoon.