{"id":608809,"date":"2021-08-02T15:51:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=608809"},"modified":"2021-08-02T15:51:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:51:32","slug":"gop-senator-lindsey-graham-tests-positive-for-covid-19-will-self-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-lindsey-graham-tests-positive-for-covid-19-will-self-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senator Lindsey Graham Tests Positive For COVID-19, Will Self-Quarantine"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fgop-senator-lindsey-graham-tests-positive-for-covid-19-will-self-quarantine%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=608809&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Graham.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced Monday afternoon that he tested positive for COVID-19 and started experiencing symptoms Saturday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Graham, who has been vaccinated with the mRNA vaccine regiment, said that he was told about his positive test by the House physician. \u201cI started having flu-like symptoms Saturday night and went to the doctor this morning,\u201d said the GOP senator.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>I feel like I have a sinus infection and at present time I have mild symptoms. I will be quarantining for ten days,\u201d said Graham.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Graham also said he was glad to have been vaccinated, \u201cbecause without vaccination I am certain I would not feel as well as I do. My symptoms would be far worse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"14.315960912052\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I feel like I have a sinus infection and at present time I have mild symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>I will be quarantining for ten days.<\/p>\n<p>I am very glad I was vaccinated because without vaccination I am certain I would not feel as well as I do now.<\/p>\n<p>My symptoms would be far worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/1422272144059289602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Graham\u2019s positive test comes amid concern from health experts about the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The Delta variant, which is more contagious than other variants of the novel coronavirus, accounted for less than 1% of sequenced COVID-19 cases in the United States mere months ago, but now makes up over 83% of cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, the CDC <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-cdc-masking-recommendations-apply-to-majority-of-u-s-counties\"><span>released guidance<\/span><\/a><span> saying that vaccinated people in high-transmission areas should mask up in public places because data suggests that vaccinated people infected with Delta may have viral loads as high as unvaccinated people infected with COVID-19. High viral loads suggest increased transmission potential, per CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Limited data is available on how many vaccinated people test positive for COVID-19. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, the CDC says about 97% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients have not been vaccinated and roughly 99.5% of COVID-19 deaths are from unvaccinated individuals.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe the vast majority of transmission is occurring in unvaccinated people and through unvaccinated people, but unlike the Alpha variant that we had back in May \u2014 where we didn\u2019t believe that if you were vaccinated you could transmit further \u2014 this is different now, with the Delta variant, and we\u2019re seeing now that it\u2019s actually possible if you are a rare breakthrough infection that you can transmit further, which is the reason for the change,\u201d said Walensky last week.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced Monday afternoon that he tested positive for COVID-19 and started experiencing symptoms Saturday.\u00a0Graham, who has been vaccinated with the mRNA vaccine regiment, said that he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608809","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\/608809","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608809\/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=608809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}