Elizabeth Warren Tests Positive for Coronavirus

U.S.|Elizabeth Warren tests affirmative for the coronavirus.

• Dec. 19, 2021, 5:37 p.m. ET

Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, announced that she had tested affirmative connected Sunday with a breakthrough lawsuit of the coronavirus.

“Thankfully, I americium lone experiencing mild symptoms & americium grateful for the extortion provided against superior unwellness that comes from being vaccinated & boosted,” she wrote connected Twitter, adding that the affirmative effect Sunday came aft a antagonistic trial earlier successful the week.

I regularly trial for COVID & portion I tested antagonistic earlier this week, contiguous I tested affirmative with a breakthrough case. Thankfully, I americium lone experiencing mild symptoms & americium grateful for the extortion provided against superior unwellness that comes from being vaccinated & boosted.

While astir Republican lawmakers person mostly stopped wearing masks successful caller months, citing vaccinations, Ms. Warren and astir Democrats person been vigilant successful wearing a disguise successful the Capitol, peculiarly arsenic cases of the coronavirus proceed to skyrocket amid the accelerated dispersed of the Omicron variant.

“I impulse everyone who has not already done truthful to get the vaccine and the booster arsenic soon arsenic imaginable — together, we tin prevention lives,” Ms. Warren wrote, adding that she had received some a vaccine and a booster shot.

The past nationalist breakthrough cases successful the Senate were successful August, erstwhile a trio of senators — Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, John Hickenlooper, Democrat of Colorado, and Angus King, autarkic of Maine — separately announced affirmative trial results connected the aforesaid day, according to a database tally by GovTrack.us.