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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome REALLY good news from right now 11.30 EST Jan 16
New Jersey Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman is on MSNBC with Tiffany Cross. She says her Covid symptoms have been like a common cold. She is now feeling better.
This is the woman who is 75 years old, a cancer survivor and was subjected to maskless REPUBLICAN ASSHOLES during the Jan 6 Capitol siege.
Walleye
(31,028 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,941 posts)I curse the execrable maskholes who put her life at risk.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)but good on her.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)Which provides some protection, so it very likely helped.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)FarPoint
(12,409 posts)receive the antibodies...
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NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Their body was already on high alert to attack the virus when they were exposed.
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)who were mocking Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester during the January 6 insurrection in the Capitol when she was trying to hand them masks should be expelled from Congress.
BrightKnight
(3,567 posts)Days 7 to 10 are dangerous. I have seen it go south then.
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)FarPoint
(12,409 posts)If several Democrats contracted COVID 19 from an unmasked republican...then who is the carrier/ republican with covids?
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)results. He "later" learned that he was covid positive at the time.
https://newschannel9.com/news/coronavirus/us-rep-chuck-fleischmann-tests-positive-for-covid-19
..."In an interview on Monday on the Mix 104.1 WCLE radio station in Cleveland, Fleischmann said when he voted to object to some states' election results after the House went back in session Wednesday, he was aware that he had been exposed to COVID-19, but he did not know at that point whether he was positive. (Watch the full interview below):".....(more)
This needs to be accompanying the story of the Democrats getting + covids...it shows the contact tracing element...Can reinforce the need for practicing covid-19 prevention protocols.
deurbano
(2,895 posts)they are who they are. I wonder if he wore a mask in the lockdown, especially knowing he'd been exposed.
srose58089
(214 posts)Thanks for the wonderful news
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,749 posts)ananda
(28,866 posts)So glad!
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)symptoms not as bad.
orleans
(34,060 posts)Warpy
(111,276 posts)but people who get clobbered by this thing get clobbered in the second week, usually not the first.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)A new very strong government focus is going to be on developing good treatments, not just vaccines.
NNadir
(33,525 posts)in2herbs
(2,945 posts)support as a single mom. I could hear in her voice how scared she is. Biden can't come soon enough.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)i just found out today that a former co-worker had covid and was hospitalized for 20 days; she now has stage 3 kidney failure. her son had to go the ER with covid last night.
this virus is simply vicious.
Fla Dem
(23,691 posts)BainsBane
(53,035 posts)halfulglas
(1,654 posts)Pisses me off that these assholes don't seem to get seriously ill in proportion to their role in spreading the virus. They romp around often asymptomatic spreading the virus far and wide.
gibraltar72
(7,506 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)Roc2020
(1,616 posts)StarryNite
(9,446 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Around 400,000 have died from it in the US.
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)I would bet a year's pay that NO ONE on DU is unaware of that fact. Posting it diminishes the news in the OP.
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)We can never forget that.
Never.
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)Your statement is true and no one is arguing that.
The question is why you chose to post it in this thread.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Bye
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)Because your post in this thread, given its celebratory intent for a member of Congress medically assaulted by right wing Maskholes was incredibly misplaced and came across as saying the Congress woman didn't matter.
Bye.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)You know what they say about opinions.
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)And how flames attract moths.
Have a swell evening for yourself
Blue Owl
(50,425 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)SunSeeker
(51,572 posts)It's an IV infusion. I'm sure it saved her and why she is already feeling better. Trump got the same thing. But most of us can't get it.
SunSeeker
(51,572 posts)Most people can't get Regeneron, unfortunately.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)Because it's hard to imagine him behaving himself until 12 on Wednesday and not trying something stupid, like maybe another coup attempt with the My Pillow Guy. They must have hime heavily sedated.
But I'll take this as a bit of good news in a week of good and bad.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)because I have heard so many anecdotal reports of people "feeling better" and then a few days later, experiencing a set back. Hopefully the regeneron would have been the ticket for her.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)I am very glad to hear this news!
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Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)Cha
(297,319 posts)panfluteman
(2,065 posts)As yet little known or elucidated, may play an important role in who has an easy time with COVID, and who doesn't. This NJ congresswoman had all the standard high risk factors - age and pre-existing immuno-compromising conditions, but still, she got off relatively lightly with COVID. Conversely, others in their prime and apparently healthy, have been felled by the infection.
deurbano
(2,895 posts)I am sure she has access to that), plus she had her first dose of the vaccine at the end of Dec.... so maybe those both helped?
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)so worried about her