EXCLUSIVE Doctors reveal hidden warning signs about Biden's health that you may have missed during tonight's address to the nation READ MORE: Time lapse of Biden over the year's reveals his deterioration By Luke Andrews Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 22:04 EDT, 24 July 2024 | Updated: 22:08 EDT, 24 July 2024 e-mail View comments Doctors who watched Joe Biden 's address to the nation tonight have revealed the subtle clues about the president's health. They pointed out that the speech was relatively short - coming in at just 11 minutes - and that Biden read exclusively from a teleprompter, making it difficult to make an a definitive assessment of his mental and physical wellbeing.
However, Virginia neurologist Dr W. Chris Winter picked up on the 81-year-old's low blink rate. 'I was counting the blink rate of all the ABC correspondents and guests before [the address] and they ranged from 30 to 60 per minute,' he told DailyMail.
com. He said the President blinked fewer than 10 times per minute on average, well below the average of 15 to 20 that most people experience. 'Low blink rate can be a sign of Parkinson's Disease.
.. an earlier sign of the disease,' Dr Winter added.
Many medical experts have previously suggested Biden's apparent cognitive decline could be suffering from an early form of the condition, especially after it emerged a Parkinson's doctor regularly visited the White House during Biden's tenure. Meanwhile, Dr Ernst von Schwarz, a cardiologist i.