Two more fleeing Texas Democrats test positive for COVID

Two more Texas Democrats who fled the state to keep Republicans from having quorum have also been found to have COVID, bringing the total to five:

THE BLAZE – Two additional Texas House Democrats, who fled the state last Monday to block legislation from passing in the Texas Legislature, have tested positive for COVID-19.

The news comes after the Texas House Democratic Caucus announced Saturday that three caucus members had tested positive for COVID-19.

The Texas House Democratic Caucus announced Sunday that, following three positive tests on Friday and Saturday, the caucus conducted additional testing. As a result, two additional Texas House Democrats tested positive for COVID-19.

That brings the total number of known infections among the caucus to five.

As with the first announcement, the caucus did not disclose the identities of the members who tested positive.

However, Texas State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer later said that he is one of the infected members and is experiencing mild symptoms. State Rep. Celia Israel also revealed that she tested positive, the New York Post noted.

It was not exactly clear why the caucus has such a high rate of infection. The caucus claims all members are vaccinated, which would make its breakthrough rate significantly higher than what has been seen in the general population. From January through April, for example, only 10,262 breakthrough cases were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention despite 101 millions Americans being fully vaccinated during the same time period.

According to the Texas Tribune, 56 Texas House Democrats fled to Washington, which would put their current breakthrough rate at nearly 10% — or nearly 1,000 times greater than the general population.

The Texas lawmakers plan to be in Washington for several more weeks.

We told you over the weekend that three of them had tested positive for COVID after meeting with the Vice President, who suddenly felt the need to make a quick but ‘routine’ trip to Water Reed. Yeah, uh huh. Now the cases in the super spreader group have almost doubled.

And of course, the garbage media still doesn’t care. But I have a feeling that Texas Republicans are kinda glad these Democrats are in DC now and not infecting them back in Texas.


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