{"id":779,"date":"2020-03-18T21:33:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=779"},"modified":"2020-03-18T21:36:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:36:48","slug":"second-member-of-congress-democrat-ben-mcadams-from-utah-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/03\/18\/second-member-of-congress-democrat-ben-mcadams-from-utah-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Second member of Congress, Democrat Ben McAdams from Utah, tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-783\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EQB8oqoU8AACLG-.jpg-orig.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2008\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EQB8oqoU8AACLG-.jpg-orig.jpeg 2008w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EQB8oqoU8AACLG-.jpg-orig-294x300.jpeg 294w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EQB8oqoU8AACLG-.jpg-orig-1004x1024.jpeg 1004w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EQB8oqoU8AACLG-.jpg-orig-768x783.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EQB8oqoU8AACLG-.jpg-orig-1506x1536.jpeg 1506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2008px) 100vw, 2008px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ben McAdams (D-Utah) reported testing positive for COVID-19, becoming the second member of Congress to contract the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcadams.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=249\">Statement<\/a>: \u201cOn Saturday evening, after returning from Washington, D.C., I developed mild cold-like symptoms. In consultation with my doctor on Sunday, I immediately isolated myself in my home.\u00a0 I have been conducting all meetings by telephone.\u00a0 My symptoms got worse and I developed a fever, a dry cough and labored breathing and I remained self-quarantined. On Tuesday, my doctor instructed me to get tested for COVID-19 and following his referral, I went to the local testing clinic for the test. Today I learned that I tested positive.\u00a0 I am still working for Utahns and pursuing efforts to get Utahns the resources they need as I continue doing my job from home until I know it is safe to end my self-quarantine. I\u2019m doing my part as all Americans are doing to contain the spread of the virus and mitigate the coronavirus outbreak. I urge Utahns to take this seriously and follow the health recommendations we\u2019re getting from the CDC and other health experts so that we can recover from this public health threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Please read my statement on contracting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a>. I have self-quarantined since first having symptoms and consulted with my doctor. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/utpol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#utpol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/upx4NcTvF8\">pic.twitter.com\/upx4NcTvF8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben McAdams UT (@BenMcAdamsUT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenMcAdamsUT\/status\/1240436119210037248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ben McAdams (D-Utah) reported testing positive for COVID-19, becoming the second member of Congress to contract the coronavirus. Statement: \u201cOn Saturday evening, after returning from Washington, D.C., I developed mild cold-like symptoms. In consultation with my doctor on Sunday, I immediately isolated myself in my home.\u00a0 I have been conducting all meetings by telephone.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18,84,86,77,85],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institutions","tag-116th","tag-ben-mcadams","tag-congress","tag-house","tag-utah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}