{"id":1423751,"date":"2022-04-07T12:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423751"},"modified":"2022-04-07T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:16:51","slug":"pelosi-becomes-latest-lawmaker-to-test-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-becomes-latest-lawmaker-to-test-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Becomes Latest Lawmaker To Test Positive For COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpelosi-becomes-latest-lawmaker-to-test-positive-for-covid-19%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423751&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, a top aide announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic. The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided,\u201d Deputy Chief of Staff Drew Hammill tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic. The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided. (1\/2)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Drew Hammill (@Drew_Hammill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Drew_Hammill\/status\/1512082222492254218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pelosi was scheduled to lead a congressional delegation to Asia beginning Thursday, but the trip has since been postponed, Hammill <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Drew_Hammill\/status\/1512084847010861060\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The Speaker will quarantine consistent with CDC guidance, and encourages everyone to get vaccinated, boosted and test regularly,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Drew_Hammill\/status\/1512082224312569873\">added<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pelosi is one of several members of Congress to test positive for the virus this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/06\/anthony-fauci-rochelle-walensky-covid-19-coronavirus-outbreak-garland-schiff\/\">joining<\/a> Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff of California and Joaquin Castro of Texas. Both members contracted COVID-19 after attending the Gridiron Dinner on April 2. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Attorney General Merrick Garland also attended the dinner and later tested positive. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/22\/jen-psaki-positive-covid-joe-biden-europe-trip\/\">(RELATED: Psaki Tests Positive For COVID Hours Before Biden\u2019s Big Europe Trip)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WakeUp2Politics\/status\/1512084372089815051\">appeared<\/a> Wednesday at the White House to celebrate President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/legislation\/2022\/04\/06\/bill-signed-h-r-3076\/\">signing<\/a> of the Postal Service Reform Act. She also attended a Tuesday anniversary celebration of the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment on whether or not Biden will quarantine while awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test.<\/p>\n<p>Public health officials have recently warned of the spread of the BA.2 COVID-19 sub-variant. New York City, for instance, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/07\/nyregion\/omicron-variant-ba2.html\">averaged<\/a> 1,500 new cases per day over the past week. However, similar to the recent Omicron wave, hospitals have not seen a major increase in patients <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/13\/omicron-covid-19-hospitalizations-coronavirus-incidental-cases\/\">admitted<\/a> due to the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, a top aide announced Thursday.\u201cAfter testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}