President Joe Biden was declared fit for duty by his doctor after the
final annual medical check-up before he is expected to declare he's
running for re-election in 2024, when he will be 82.
Biden, the oldest person ever to be US president, began a series of tests last year at to determine how fit he is
He
spent Thursday morning, Feb. 16, completing the testsat Walter Reed
National Military Medical Center, a complex in the Washington suburbs
with a presidential facility.
After extensive testing, the
report found some relatively minor issues but said Biden was clear of
serious physical and neurological problems.
President Biden
remains a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male, who is fit to
successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those of
as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief, Biden's
physician, Kevin O'Connor, said in a letter published by the White
House.
The President remains fit for duty, and fully executes all of his responsibilities without any exemptions or accommodations.
Biden has not declared a reelection bid but is widely expected to do so soon, with the campaign starting to heat up.
On
the Republican side, so far the front runner is former president Donald
Trump, whom Biden beat in the tumultuous 2020 election.
Biden is
likely to run on his heavyweight political record after two years in
which he steered the country past the Covid pandemic, ended the US war
in Afghanistan and rallied Western countries opposing Russia's invasion
of Ukraine.
However, questions around his age and constant
Republican insinuations that he is mentally incompetent will likely be a
major through-line during the campaign.
