The White House called a lid before noon Friday, indicating Joe Biden will not be seen or heard for the rest of the day as he takes a long weekend vacation at his beach home in Rehoboth beach, Delaware to celebrate Jill Biden's 71st birthday. Biden gave remarks earlier Friday on the monthly jobs report. Biden is taking a long weekend off even though the baby formula shortage is getting worse despite his slow-to-react efforts in recent weeks. Ten states and fourteen major metropolitan areas are over 90 percent short with Georgia the worse off state at 94 percent short and Atlanta and Sacramento, California leading cities at 94.6 percent short, reported Bloomberg Thursday.

Daily Mail reporter Emily Goodin relayed the pool report on the lid being called, "WH call a lid, per pooler @catherine_lucey, with POTUS in Rehoboth Beach for weekend. Today is FLOTUS' 71st bday Dr. Biden is spending bday weekend with POTUS 'and one of her sisters. She's hoping to get in a bike ride or two and enjoy being with her family,' East Wing tells me"

VOA reporter Patsy Widakuswara notes the time the lid was called at 11:24 a.m. EDT.

Bloomberg reported Thursday afternoon the baby formula shortage is getting worse with the supply shortage now up to 74 percent nationally with one in five states short ninety percent.

Bloomberg excerpt:

The baby formula shortage continued to worsen last week despite actions from the Biden administration to ease constraints, according to retail tracking data.