Checkup finds Biden fit for duty; Kamala Harris briefly in power

Kamala Harris, the first woman, first Black person and first person of South Asian descent to be vice chairman, was — for one hour and 25 twinkles — acting chairman while Biden was under anesthesia. 

 President Joe Biden remains “ healthy” and “ vigorous” and fit for duty, but is showing some signs of aging, his croaker said Friday after the oldest chairman in American history passed his first routine physical in office and — in a history- making moment — briefly transferred power to Vice President Kamala Harris while he passed a colonoscopy. 

 Harris, the first woman, first Black person and first person of South Asian descent to be vice chairman, was — for one hour and 25 twinkles — acting chairman while Biden was under anesthesia. 

 Over further than five hours Friday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the chairman passed a battery of blood, physical, gastrointestinal, dental, vision and neurological examinations.Dr. Kevin O’Connor, who has been Biden’s primary care croaker since 2009, wrote in a six- runner memo released by the White House that Biden, who turns 79 on Saturday, “ remains a healthy, vigorous, 78- time-old joker, who’s fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.” 

 O’Connor, still, revealed that he delved Biden for increased cases of “ throat clearing” during public reflections and a stiffening of his gait. O’Connor reported that Biden’s coughing was the result of gastrointestinal influx and that the stiff gait was the result of a new opinion of “ mild supplemental neuropathy,” spinal arthritis and compensation for a broken bottom sustained a time ago. 

 Interest in Biden’s health has been high ever since he declared his training for the White House in 2019 and remains violent as enterprise about a 2024 reelection shot swirls. The visit to the medical center in the Washington cities was for his first routine physical test as chairman — and his first since December 2019. 

 As part of the webbing, Biden passed an “ extremely detailed neurological test” that ruled out stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s and amyotrophic side sclerosis, but caught the neuropathy, which is whim-whams damage in the hands and bases. O’Connor said the most common cause of the condition is diabetes, but Biden isn’t diabetic. Biden, he said, would soon try custom orthotics to ameliorate his gait. 

 During the course of Biden’s colonoscopy a “ benign- appearing neoplasm” of about 3 millimeters was linked and removed and would be studied over the coming week. O’Connor said Biden has noway had colon cancer. 

 Biden’s reported body mass indicator classified him as slightly fat, but his cholesterol was under control. Biden,O’Connor said, is specified the anticoagulant Eliquis, the statin Crestor and the seasonal mislike spray Dymista, and regularly takes the untoward mislike lozenge Allegra and the antacid Pepcid. 

O’Connor reported that Biden doesn’t use tobacco products or drink alcohol and that he exercises at least five days per week. 

 Press clerk Jen Psaki said he proceeded his duties after speaking with Harris and White House chief of staff Ron Klain at roughly 1135a.m. 

 As Biden left the medical center in the autumn, he said he was feeling “ Great!” 

 “ Great physical and a great House of Representatives vote,” he said, pertaining to the House passage of his roughly$ 2 trillion social and environmental docket. 

 After arriving back at the White House, he said “ Nothing’s changed” with his health, joking,”We ’re in great shape, and I ’m looking forward to celebrating my 58th birthday.” 

 While serving as acting chairman Harris was working from her office in the West Wing, Psaki said. She latterly traveled to Ohio once Biden awoke from the procedure. 

 Biden was keenly apprehensive of the history he was making when he named Harris to be his handling mate, Psaki said, adding that she made “ history every day” in the job. 

 “ Moment was clearly another chapter in that history I suppose that will be noted for women, youthful girls across the country,”she added. 

 During Biden’s last physical test, croakers plant the former vice chairman to be “ healthy, vigorous” and “ fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,” according to a croaker’s report at the time. 

 In that report, O’Connor said that since 2003, Biden has had occurrences of atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular twinkle that’s potentially serious but treatable. At the time, O’Connor cited a list of tests that showed Biden’s heart was performing typically and his only demanded care was a blood thinner to help the most worrisome threat, blood clots or stroke. 

 Biden had a encounter with death in 1988, taking surgery to repair two brain aneurysms, weak bulges in highways, one of them oohing. Biden has noway had a rush, his croaker said, citing a test in 2014 that examined his highways. 

Dr. Jeffrey Linder, chief of general internal drug and elders at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, read the White House report and said it contained nothing that’s particularly worrisome. 

 “ All in all, according to this report it seems like he’s in enough good shape, with veritably common age- related illness, ’’ including atrial fibrillation and stiff gait, Linder said. 

 While the cause of Biden’s mild neuropathy is unknown, Linder said it isn’t an unusual problem and not a cause for concern unless it’s bothersome for the chairman. He added that there’s no reason to suppose the small neoplasm that was removed was cancerous, given Biden’s former medical history. 

 “ I would encourage him to continue to get exercise and eat right and take his specifics, ’’ Linder said. 

 Pursuant to the 25th Correction to the Constitution, Biden inked letters toSen. Patrick Leahy, who is chairman pro tempore of the Senate, and to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at 1010a.m., saying he’d be unfit to discharge his duties while under anesthesia, making Harris the acting chairman. Biden transferred them each another letter upon the conclusion of the procedure to renew his duties at 1135a.m. 

 “ As was the case when President GeorgeW. Bush had the same procedure in 2002 and 2007, and following the process set out in the Constitution, President Biden will transfer power to the Vice President for the brief period of time when he’s under anesthesia,” Psaki said before Biden’s colonoscopy. 

 On Friday autumn, Biden took part in the periodic pardoning of the public Thanksgiving lemon. 

 When Biden took office he brought O’Connor back to the White House to continue serving as his croaker, andO’Connor led a platoon of experts in conducting Biden’s physical test Friday. 

 Once the Covid-19 epidemic surfaced in early 2020, Biden’s platoon took violent way to keep the also- seeker and now- chairman healthy as the contagion raged and took a disproportionate risk among aged populations. Biden entered his first cure of the Covid-19 vaccine in December 2020 and his alternate cure just two weeks before taking office. He entered a supporter cure, which controllers say provides further continuing protection, in late September. 

 Former President Donald Trump, 75, was sprucely blamed for releasing only gadarene details on his health while running and serving in the White House, including concealing the soberness of his Covid-19 illness a month before the 2020 presidential election.