“This afternoon, the United States representative, Stephen F. Lynch, received a positive result for COVID-19 after a team member at the congressman’s office in Boston tested positive earlier in the week,” said Lynch’s spokeswoman. , Molly Rose Tarpey, in a statement on Friday.
The Massachusetts Democrat plans to isolate and will vote by proxy in Congress next week, according to Tarpey.
Covid-19 vaccines prevent disease, but do not necessarily prevent infection. If someone is positive and doesn’t get sick, the vaccine worked as expected. If someone’s test is positive a few weeks after receiving the second dose, it may be because the vaccine has not yet worked.
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that building up immunity to Covid-19 “usually takes a few weeks” after vaccination.
Lynch is the latest member of Congress to test positive for the virus in recent months, while the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread across the country.
Some members of Congress and more than three dozen Capitol police tested positive for Covid-19 after the January 6 uprising at the United States Capitol. Experts consider the mutiny, which broke out while Congress certified the results of the 2020 presidential election, to be a likely overdiffusion event.