Doctor says President-elect Joe Biden fractured foot while playing with his dog

A motorcade with President-elect Joe Biden aboard arrives at Delaware Orthopaedic Specialists on Sunday in Newark, Del.

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 By ASSOCIATED PRESS

NOV. 29, 2020

4:40 PM

WILMINGTON, Del. —  

President-elect Joe Biden suffered hairline fractures in his foot while playing with one of his dogs, but doctors found “no obvious fracture” while examining him Sunday, according to his doctor.

Biden suffered the injury on Saturday and visited an orthopedist at Delaware Orthopaedic Specialists in Newark, Del., for an examination Sunday afternoon, his office said. A subsequent CT scan “confirmed hairline (small) fractures of President-elect Biden’s lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones, which are in the mid-foot,” according to a statement from his doctor, Kevin O’Connor.

“It is anticipated that he will likely require a walking boot for several weeks,” O’Connor added.

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