Posted on 05/28/2020 11:51:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who was Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate in 2016, announced that both he and his wife Anne tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies, meaning that it’s likely he was infected with the CCP virus.
Kaine is the second senator to have presumably tested positive for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, a novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease, after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he contracted the virus and self-quarantined.
“We each tested positive for coronavirus antibodies this month. While those antibodies could make us less likely to be re-infected or infect others, there is still too much uncertainty over what protection antibodies may actually provide. So we will keep following CDC guidelines,” Kaine said in a statement, referring to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We encourage others to do so as well. It shows those around you that you care about them,” he said of the guidelines.
CDC guidelines on COVID-19 antibody tests note that a positive antibody test result does not necessarily indicate immunity from the virus. False-positive results are also a possibility.
“Serologic test results do not indicate with certainty the presence or absence of current or previous infection with SARS-CoV-2,” the CDC writes on its website.
Kaine, in his statement, said he tested positive for influenza earlier in 2020 and was given “standard medication to treat it.” Those symptoms, however, lingered and he continued to receive treatment from his doctor until mid-March, he said.
But at the end of March, Kaine recalled that he developed “new symptoms” that he initially believed was the flu combined with allergies.
“Then Anne experienced a short bout of fever and chills, followed by congestion and eventually a cough,” the senator added.
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So? Meaningless...Less than meaningless.
Like good little soldiers...
I swear I thought the article was going to say that he tested positive for HIV/AIDS.
Did they forget that Ted Cruz also tested positive.
OK fine
In the time b4 being tested how many did he infect.
He got the Clown-16 virus already.
Hmm.. maybe this thing causes brain damage too.
No, they did not. But Cruz is a Republican.
RE: Did they forget that Ted Cruz also tested positive.
Not sure about that. Cruz went into a 14 day self-quarantine voluntarily after the conservative conference he attended was discovered to have infected participants whose hands he might have shook.
A spreader.
Did he have any symptoms?
Is this the test that the CDC says has a 50% error rate?
So? Meaningless...Less than meaningless.
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But somebody put it in Breaking News.
Did the window licker contract the virus from his short bus?
Who cares.
Hillary’s foot stool can drop dead for all I care.
More examples of people not even knowing they had it.
They knew they were sick, but many apparently don’t even notice being sick.
Purposely nebulous
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