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International Desk: US president-elect Joe Biden has a foot fracture and will likely have to wear a medical boot, his team said Sunday after the 78-year-old was taken to the doctor because he had slipped while playing with his dog.<\/p>\nInternational Desk: US president-elect Joe Biden has a foot fracture and will likely have to wear a medical boot, his team said Sunday after the 78-year-old was taken to the doctor because he had slipped while playing with his dog.<\/p>\n
Biden, who will become the oldest US president upon his January swearing-in, suffered the injury Saturday with Major, one of his two German shepherds.<\/p>\n
The president-elect\u2019s personal physician Kevin O\u2019Connor initially said x-rays had not uncovered any \u201cobvious fracture\u201d, but added that an additional CT scan would still be done.<\/p>\n
That scan \u201cconfirmed hairline (small) fractures\u2026 in the mid-foot,\u201d O\u2019Connor said in a subsequent statement released by Biden\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
He added that the former vice president, who won election against Donald Trump in November, \u201cwill likely require a walking boot for several weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n
With both Biden and Trump in their 70s, age was an issue in the presidential race, even if it often took a backseat to pressing matters like the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s health was briefly of intense concern when he caught Covid-19, but the president resumed campaigning after getting a series of treatments \u2014 including an experimental antibody cocktail.<\/p>\n
Trump, a famously finicky germophobe, was the first president in over a century to not have a dog.<\/p>\n
The Bidens fostered and then adopted Major in 2018, while Champ has been with the family since 2008.<\/p>\n
Biden officials have said Major will become the first rescue dog to live in the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
International Desk: US president-elect Joe Biden has a foot fracture and will likely have to wear a medical boot, his team said Sunday after the 78-year-old was taken to the doctor because he had slipped while playing with his dog. Biden, who will become the oldest US president upon his January swearing-in, suffered the injury […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":64415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n