Joe Biden was asked on Wednesday what was he doing to deal with the rising COVID cases, and what his plan was.

Biden said he would tell people that they should be “getting vaccinated.”

Yesterday afternoon, a reporter asked Joe Biden what his plan is to deal with rising COVID cases.

Biden said that the country should be "getting vaccinated." pic.twitter.com/NrEU9oJYU9

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But getting vaccinated didn’t prevent him from getting COVID. According to the White House, he was diagnosed with COVID on Thursday.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked questions about his illness, but she wasn’t giving clear answers. They had the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha there to assist, but not Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the person who is caring for him.

Jha was asked where Biden caught it from. When Jha said he didn’t know and turned to Jean-Pierre, Jean-Pierre stepped in to say that she didn’t think that was important.

"Where exactly was the president infected?"

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "I don't think that matters" pic.twitter.com/m9kPfVoNEk

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“Look, I don’t think that that matters, right? I think what matters is we prepared for this moment,” she said.

“I think what matters is what Dr. Jha just laid out. If we look at where we were a year and a half ago, this is a president, when he walked in, one of his first priorities was to make sure we had a comprehensive plan to get people vaccinated,” she continued. “And so now we look to today, more and more people are getting closer to having a more normal life, vaccines are available.

“And as Dr. Jha said, if you have not gotten vaccinated, please do,” she added. “If you have not gotten boosted, please do. These are treatments that are going to keep you safe. And I think that’s what matters here, is making sure that we continue to do the work. And the good thing is that the president, again, has been vaccinated and double boosted.”

First, when Biden came in, there already was a plan to get people vaccinated, which is why he was vaccinated before he came in. But even though he’s been vaccianted and double boosted, he still got it. Yet, Jean-Pierre made sure to do that homage to being vaccianted and double boosted.

Jean-Pierre tried to put down any question of where he got it from.

Karine Jean-Pierre on Biden testing positive for COVID:

"We knew this was going to happen." pic.twitter.com/uKJFEJUmCW

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It is important to have an idea, to be able to contact and trace who he might have exposed. I’m also rather curious if he got it in Saudi Arabia, which raises other questions. He also had two days where he had nothing on his public schedule, which makes me curious about if he was feeling anything earlier than Thursday. But he did go to Massachusetts on Wednesday. On that trip, he traveled with Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), and Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA), in addition to White House officials. But Jean-Pierre seemed to immediately want to cut off any questions.

Jean-Pierre said she couldn’t say when Biden started showing symptoms.

"Can you say exactly when [Biden] started feeling mild symptoms?"

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: No pic.twitter.com/Sxdq7eF2MC

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She said Thursday morning he said he had a runny nose, a dry cough, and was feeling fatigued.

As we reported, Biden tweeted a picture showing him at his desk, allegedly still working (without a mask) and Jean-Pierre’s response to that was just ridiculous.

But we should be hearing from his doctor in person, not Jha, who is not treating him. The reporters asked why they were having to play “telephone,” with Jha relaying information rather than Biden’s doctor.

REPORTER: "Can we get the president's physician here so we can not play the game of telephone?"

KJP: "I don't think this is a game of telephone…" pic.twitter.com/hEoMIWsEUu

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The reporters also asked if there was a plan in place, if things got worse. Jean-Pierre ducked the question, perhaps suggesting there is no plan.

REPORTER: "Is there a plan in place to transfer power to Vice President Harris if the president's situation gets worse?"

KJP: "He's able to do the business of the American people from the residence, and that's what matters right now."

"So there's no plan in place then?" pic.twitter.com/OrFbjHHz0f

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One reason why we should be hearing from Biden’s doctor is that they are now stopping a couple of the regular medicines he takes because he will be taking the Paxlovid to treat the COVID. They’re stopping his blood thinner Eliquis that he’s using to treat atrial fibrillation (an irregular heartbeat condition), as well as Crestor that he takes to bring down his cholesterol.

“I had a conversation about this with Dr. [Kevin] O’Connor. There are two medicines he’s on, Eliquis and Crestor … both of which need to be stopped when you take Paxlovid,” White House coronavirus coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told reporters at a briefing.

“It’s a very standard, common thing that we do when we give people Paxlovid,” Jha said.

“You don’t need to do anything in those circumstances. They both get stopped for the five days that he’s on Paxlovid and then they get restarted and it’s totally fine and pretty normal practice.”

But Dr. Brett Giroir, who was Assistant Secretary of Health during the Trump administration, and Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox contributor, expressed concerns about completely stopping the blood thinner. Giroir said, “[I]t would be more of a problem to be off his blood thinners, which he really does need.” Siegel said he should reduce but not eliminate the blood thinner. Both suggested that some of Biden’s comments during his speech in Massachusetts — including talking about having cancer — might have been due to “mind fog” from COVID.

“Especially since one of his symptoms that he was talking about was fatigue last night … I think that that symptom might imply a certain amount of brain fog … maybe that explains some of the comments that he made yesterday, you know, about being confused about the cancer issue,” Siegel said.

Unfortunately, Biden has had issues with “mind fog” for decades, so I’m not sure COVID is the answer for that kind of a comment.