A growing list of top U.S. officials in Washington, D.C., have announced positive coronavirus tests this week, adding a fresh wrinkle to the efforts by political leaders to bring the country back to 'normal' from a pandemic now in its third year.
Several lawmakers have also announced positive test results and are isolating, including Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga. Collins' office announced she had tested positive late Thursday, shortly after the Senate voted to confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser also announced Thursday that she tested positive for COVID-19 and would “work at home while following isolation protocols.” “Last night as a part of his regular testing cadence, the President tested negative,” the White House said in a statement. “He will continue to be tested regularly. The President wishes Speaker Pelosi a speedy recovery.”The CDC says people vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 are much less likely to suffer adverse outcomes, including serious illness and death, from the virus compared to those who are unvaccinated.
“The most important message we’re sending to the public is that we have steps in place that we can take to continue to address it, and even as we’re continuing to fight COVID we can, for the most part, return to our normal routines,” she said Thursday.
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