Sen. Chuck Schumer tests positive for COVID-19
Posted By: Ribicon, 7/11/2022 11:20:45 AM
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has tested positive for COVID, his office said Sunday. “As a part of his regular testing regimen, Leader Schumer received a positive test result for COVID-19,” said Angelo Roefaro, a spokesman for the Democrat senator from New York. Schumer, 71, is fully vaccinated, double boosted and experiencing “very mild symptoms,” according to his office. He plans to quarantine through the week in his Brooklyn home and will work remotely while the Senate is in session, Roefaro said. “He greatly appreciates the protection the vaccine has provided him and encourages everyone to test regularly and get vaccinated and boosted,” the spokesman said.
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Former president Trump not long ago reminded us that this is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated," so any of us who shirked our patriotic duty to take the shots and the boosters can thank themselves for the fully vaccinated and boosted Chuck Schumer (America's leading light) falling ill with the covid.