Nancy Pelosi tests positive for COVID-19

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, according to a statement.

Driving the news: "After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic," Drew Hammill, Pelosi's deputy chief of staff, wrote in a tweet.

Pelosi attended an event with President Biden at the White House on Wednesday.

The big picture: Pelosi is the latest in a slew of White House officials and members of Congress to test positive for COVID-19 this week.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/nancy-pelosi-tests-positive-covid-b5aa3353-a425-43e1-8efa-c014aa9d662f.html

[catsudon]

1. isn't she suppose to visit taiwan soon?

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[Lefta Dissenter]

7. Japan this weekend,

I don’t know where she was supposed to go from there.

I hope she’s ok.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

2. @#$%!

She is in her 80s.

[bottomofthehill]

4. Yes, but she is fully vaccinated and in amazing health.

Hopefully she will be fine. She has everything going for her. Is asymptomatic and feels fine. All good news but for the Covid diagnosis.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

8. I hope so.

Things like this scare me:

Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0

[bottomofthehill]

9. Totally agree

The after effects of Covid are still a big question mark. Long Covid is real. It took me months to get my energy up after Covid last year. I am very fortunate to have good insurance and after a trip to the ER with a racing heart rate, my Doc ordered up a ton of cardiac work and thankfully my insurance paid for most of it. After my 750 dollar deductible there were a few hundred more dollars, but could have been much worse. I had an EKG, Blood Work, a 2 week Zio heart monitor and an echocardiogram of my heart. At least I have a great post Covid baseline of cardiac activity.

[Strelnikov_]

13. Bah, no worse than the flu, sez Tucker Carlsonikov n/t

[onetexan]

3. Please take care & get well soon Madame Speaker

We need you 🙏

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Wishing Speaker Nancy Pelosi a speedy recovery from Covid-19

Link to tweet

[Rebl2]

6. Did she go

to that gridiron dinner too? Was it a mix of republicans and democrats that attended? I believe people are getting Covid and going out anyway spreading it, but I think it’s been this way for a very long time.

[wnylib]

10. According to an NPR news report, she did not go to the dinner.

But the House no longer requires masks, so she could have picked it up from anyone who was infected.

[Rebl2]

11. Yes

likely where she got it.

[FakeNoose]

15. I'm convinced the Repukes sent a "typhoid Mary" to infect as many Dems as possible

[progree]

12. Washington D.C. -- a 135% increase in cases in the past 14 days -- that's a 2.35-fold increase

-- from a daily average of about 8 per 100k to 18 per 100k.

If Washington D.C. was a state, it would be the state with the #1 highest percentage increase over 14 days (7 day moving average thru April 6 compared to 7 day moving average thru March 23).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/washington-district-of-columbia-covid-cases.html
no paywall, no quota

18 per 100k is still quite low, but, well, last July things were quite low too and back then almost everybody who was going to get double vaxxed was double vaxxed, and yet another variant came along and then another and ...

27 states have increased new cases compared to 14 days earlier

But the U.S. overall is down 2%.

[riversedge]

14. I hope she rests. I have talked to so many that say even a mild case leaves them

tired and fatigued--and yes, they were 3x jabbed.

So far I have been lucky. I still avoid crowds and wear a mask when in stores.

[ChazII]

16. Hope that

Speaker Pelosi feel s better soon.