Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has tested positive for COVID, his office said Sunday.
“As a part of his regular testing regimen, Leader Schumer received a positive test result for COVID-19,” said Angelo Roefaro, a spokesman for the Democrat senator from New York.
Schumer, 71, is fully vaccinated, double boosted and experiencing “very mild symptoms,” according to his office. He plans to quarantine through the week in his Brooklyn home and will work remotely while the Senate is in session, Roefaro said.
“He greatly appreciates the protection the vaccine has provided him and encourages everyone to test regularly and get vaccinated and boosted,” the spokesman said.
“Anyone who knows Leader Schumer knows that even if he’s not physically in the Capitol, through virtual meetings and his trademark flip phone he will continue with his robust schedule and remain in near constant contact with his colleagues,” Roefaro added.
His office will provide updates to the Senate floor throughout the week regarding his health.
Schumer had no public events Saturday, Roefaro said, adding the veteran senator is “in good spirits.”
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NO need to keep in contact with us , we can get along without you. We are worn out from all the B.S. you feed us anyway.
Hope Hope Schmuck doesn’t make it. This LAZY GOOD FOR NOTHING needs to RESIGN and leave the COUNTRY and the American People alone He’s just like the Rest of the DemoRats Parasites in both House , Senate and the We The People s House.
Don’t whine like a Democrat. Take action and vote AGAINST every Democrat from the president to the school board!
This treasonous, hateful, destructive, immoral, socialist Democrat Party and their corrupt, demented puppet president has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
GOOD. Hope he suffers greatly from it.
Ya, Schumer is double, triple, quadtruple vaccinated. My gluteus maximus. He knows what’s in the vaccine and what it will do. Just like Slo Joe. I saw a video of Slo Joe getting the COVID booster jab – what an absolute fraud. Get a life DB.