Gov. Greg Abbott’s office announced that he tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday.
A statement said the governor is tested daily and that his first positive test came Tuesday. Abbott is isolating himself at the Governor’s Mansion in Austin.
Abbott was vaccinated in December 2020 at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin.
After receiving the first shot of the two-dose Pfizer vaccine, he tossed his hands up and said, “It’s that easy,” before a round of applause from members of his staff and medical professionals who were in the room.
“I will never ask Texans to do something I wouldn’t do,” Abbott said.
A spokesman for Abbott said the governor is not showing any symptoms of the virus, a common result for many who have received the vaccine but have gotten rare breakthrough infections.
While severe infections can occur in those who have been vaccinated, the majority of cases involving hospitalizations during the current surge involve those who are unvaccinated, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
In Austin, just 41 cases out of 2,663 breakthrough cases involved hospitalizations, Austin Public Health reported this week.
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Make one thing perfectly clear. Carrying the virus in a vaccinated condition, or a condition where you already fought it off, with acquired immunity, is a whole different game than suffering and dying from it. Thanks to the Chinese it’s everywhere so get used to it, because it is not going away until herd immunity is obtained. The objective is to be carrying it, and it does not or no longer makes you sick. That is the goal for WE THE PEOPLE as individual controllers of our own health should be the status we seek to obtain. Masks and lockdowns are just a political vehicle to postpone the inevitable,,,,and for Democrats it is their goal to postpone it until the next election by any and all government and media control means necessary.
IF ONE still can contract the virus, HOW CAN IT be called a vaccine!!!!!
And……..
get well gov.abbott and soon.
Must not have been wearing his mask.
Still am thankful that TX & Florida at least have seceded from the United States of Mandates.
Didn’t realize just how many bossy bullying people who “voluntarily” choose to get a 1 year old vaccine that thousands have died &/or suffered serious bodily damage from & who ” voluntarily ” choose against proven science & common sense to double/triple mask themselves for hours on end have the nerve to demand that absolutely everyone else, including covid recovered & little children, none of whom they are told pose any danger to them anyway, must be “involuntarily” forced by govt to do so.
So much for a free country, freedom from govt oppression, privacy or individual body autonomy.
AND so much for “MY Body my choice!”
Remember what Klahmidia Harris said back in October: “I would NEVER trust a vaccine developed under Trump.” Which vaccine is SHE using?
FOR all we know, what she got “Shot” with, in that tv clip, was a PLACEBO…