President Biden will be receiving treatment form a team of top doctors at the state-of-the-art facility inside of the White House which even has its own operating theater.
The 79-year-old has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and remains in isolation after suffering fatigue, a dry cough and runny nose.
His doctor, who heads up the White House Medical Unit, confirmed that he had two doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine before he took office.
President Biden also received a first and a second booster shot in September and March, getting the jab in the exam room of the unit.
The hospital has around 30 personnel manning the building at all hours of the day, with doctors at the President’s beck and call round the clock.
An exam room, with ICU supplies including the Presidents blood, was built into the ground floor of the White House, directly next to the Map Room – which former presidents used to monitor military activities around the globe.
It is also located close to a larger set of offices in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building that neighbors the White House.
President Biden will have his condition monitored by the dozens of staff working at the facility and has been prescribed Paxlovid.
Former President Obama was pictured receiving a vaccination for swine flu in the centre during his time in the White House in December 2020.
President Biden was pictured receiving his booster vaccinations in the facility after taking office in 2022. His doctor today confirmed that he had tested positive for COVID-19
First Lady Jill Biden, who has tested negative despite close contact with her husband, left a framed note offering all staff members at the White House to get free health screenings at the unit
Air Force One, a Boeing 747-200B, also has access to a medical suite that can function as an operating room, with a doctor permanently on board for emergencies
If the President needed to be hospitalized her would be transferred to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Maryland. The hospital, pictured, has 244 beds, including 50 ICU beds
A huge team of doctors is on site at the White House to treat the Presidents 24 hours a day if needed. The Unit also has an operating table for emergencies, as well as prescribing medication if needed
His doctor Kevin C. O’Connor said this morning: ‘President Biden is currently experiencing mild symptoms, mostly rhinorrhea (or ‘runny nose’) and fatigue, with an occasional dry cough, which started yesterday evening.
‘The President is fully vaccinated and twice-boosted, so I anticipate that he will respond favourably, as most maximally protected patients do.
‘Early use of PAXLOVID in this case provides additional protection against severe disease.
‘He will isolate in accordance with CDC recommendations.’
The White House confirmed that President Biden will be continuing to work during his treatment, despite his isolation.
He tweeted: ‘Folks, I’m doing great. Thanks for your concern. Just called Senator Casey, Congressman Cartwright, and Mayor Cognetti (and my Scranton cousins!) to send my regrets for missing our event today. Keeping busy!’
His wife Jill Biden has texted negative despite being a close contact, but if she were to have caught the virus then the top-of-the range facilities would be available to her too.
During the height of the pandemic the White House Unit was responsible for conducting COVID-19 tests on journalists in the White House press corps.
Any President travelling on the Boeing 747-200B Air Force One also has access to a medical suite that can function as an operating room, and a doctor is permanently on board.
As well as the First Lady, the rest of the president’s immediate family are also able to receive care from the military professionals.
Vice President Kamala Harris and White House staff members are also on the select list of people who can access the facilities.
Former President Trump was admitted to the ‘Nation’s Medical Centre’, pictured, when he tested positive for COVID-19 in 2020 shortly before the presidential election
Former President Obama was pictured receiving a vaccination for swine flu in the centre during his time in the White House
The Presidential suite at Walter Reed hospital, known as Ward 71, is equipped with secure communications devices, as well as rooms for convalescing leaders to receive visitors
The living room is seen in these photos of the suite from 2007. It is unknown if the decor has been updated since then
Foreign dignitaries and tourists who are given permission to visit the site are also able to be treated for any pressing ailments.
Medical professionals on the site are able to carry out anything from simple routine check-ups and dispensing medication to emergency responses like resuscitation.
The White House Medical Unit works to stabilize their patient in the most serious of cases, before transferring them to a hospital as soon as possible.
If the President needed to be hospitalized, he would be taken to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Maryland.
It is which is equipped with an intensive care unit, more advanced imaging capabilities and specialists.
Former President Trump was admitted to the ‘Nation’s Medical Centre’ when he tested positive for COVID-19 in 2020 shortly before the presidential election.
The facility has some of the nation’s top doctors, with 7,100 staff members spread out across 100 clinics and specialties.
Trump stayed in the hospital’s designated Presidential Suite, a lavish portion of one of its 88 buildings.
Known as Ward 71, the Presidential Suite is one of six special patient rooms reserved for high-ranking military officers and members of the White House cabinet.
Walter Reed also has an Institute of Research at Silver Spring, nearby the hospital in Maryland, where scientists develop vaccines and treatments for infectious diseases like COVID-19.
The dining room in the suite is even lit by a crystal chandelier, meaning any President can be treated while enjoying luxuries similar to the White House
The facility has some of the nation’s top doctors, with 7,100 staff members spread out across 100 clinics and specialties
The ‘Presidential Suite’ at Walter Reed Medical Center is reserved for the President an the Vice President if they need treatment. Pictured: One of the rooms of Ward 71, which are reserved for high-ranking military officers and cabinet members
The suite is ‘specially outfitted with protective devices and communications gear used in support of the president,’ wrote Rear Admiral Connie Mariano, who served as a physician to both presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and was director of the White House Medical Unit.
Walter Reed also has an Institute of Research at Silver Spring, nearby the hospital in Maryland, where scientists develop vaccines and treatments for infectious diseases like COVID-19.
Both the President and Vice President are typically treated at the Medical Evaluation and Treatment Unit (METU).
The METU is secure, private and separate from the sprawling hospital’s other wards, and has a dining room lit by a crystal chandelier and a desk a few steps from the hospital bed.
The hospital – located about nine miles from the White House – has 244 beds in total, and 50 ICU beds.
Walter Reed also has 165 ‘Smart Suites’ outfitted with ‘two-way communication devices, audio-visual and wireless capabilities as well as bedside entertainment, all of which can be controlled via a wall-mounted, removable keyboard that the patient has access to at all times.’
The last time a sitting president was hospitalized: Ronald Reagan spent 12 days at George Washington University Hospital after attempted assassination 39 years ago
President Donald Trump’s admission to Walter Reed Medical Center on 3 October 2020 marks the first time in 39 years that a sitting U.S. president has been hospitalized.
Ronald Reagan was the last sitting president to be hospitalized as an inpatient, after he was seriously wounded on March 30, 1981 outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in an attempted assassination.
Shooter John Hinckley Jr fired a .22 Long Rifle bullet that ricocheted off the presidential limousine and struck Reagan in the torso, puncturing a lung and causing serious internal bleeding. He believed the attack would impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had become obsessed.
Ronald Reagan was the last sitting president to be hospitalized as an inpatient, after he was seriously wounded on March 30, 1981 in an attempted assassination
Chaos surrounds shooting victims immediately after the assassination attempt on President Reagan, March 30, 1981, by John Hinkley Jr outside the Hilton Hotel in DC
Reagan was rushed to George Washington University Hospital, which was just over a mile away, and had been routinely screened by the Secret Service as a potential emergency treatment site for the president.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where presidents routinely receive medical care and Trump will be admitted, is about nine miles from downtown DC.
Reagan underwent emergency surgery, but there was no official invocation of the 25th Amendment, which allows for the vice president to be designated as acting president if the president is temporarily incapacitated.
Nonetheless, Secretary of State Alexander Haig famously declared that he was ‘in control here’ following the shooting, while Vice President George H. W. Bush returned to Washington from a trip to Texas.
Injured in the attempted assassination of Reagan were Press Secretary James Brady and Agent Timothy McCarthy. The aftermath of the shooting is seen above
Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr is seen in 2003. He believed the attack would impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had become obsessed
Despite the severity of his injuries, Reagan was eager to show that he was on the mend, and met visitors and signed a piece of legislation the morning after the shooting.
He remained hospitalized at GWU Hospital for 12 days, and returned to the White House on April 11, 1981.
The shooter, Hinckley, was found not guilty by reason of insanity and remained under institutional psychiatric care until September 10, 2016, when he was released to live under his mother’s supervision in Virginia.
The 25th Amendment has been invoked three times to designate an acting president for medical reasons, each time for an outpatient procedure to conduct a colonoscopy or remove colon polyps.
In 1985, Vice President George H.W. Bush was acting president from 11.28am until 7.22pm on July 13, as Reagan had pre-cancerous colon lesions removed.
On June 29, 2002, President George W. Bush explicitly invoked the 25th Amendment in temporarily transferring his powers to Vice President Dick Cheney before undergoing a colonoscopy. Cheney was acting president from 7.09am to 9.24am.
Then on July 21, 2007, Bush again invoked the 25th Amendment before another colonoscopy. Cheney was acting president from 7.16am to 9.21am.
Trump reportedly plans to spend several days working from a dedicated office suite at Walter Reed as his COVID-19 symptoms and condition are monitored.
At this time, no plans have been announced for him to temporarily transfer power to Vice President Mike Pence.