{"id":1443,"date":"2022-03-23T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/hillary-clinton-tests-positive-for-covid-19-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T19:13:08","slug":"hillary-clinton-tests-positive-for-covid-19-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/hillary-clinton-tests-positive-for-covid-19-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton tests positive for Covid-19 – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

BREAKING: Madeleine Albright, first female secretary of state, dies at 84<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton<\/a> announced Tuesday that she had tested positive for Covid-19<\/a>, and was “feeling fine” despite some mild symptoms.
“I\u2019m more grateful than ever for the protection vaccines can provide against serious illness. Please get vaccinated and boosted if you haven\u2019t already!” Clinton, 74, said in a pair of tweets<\/a>.
She said her husband, former President Bill Clinton, 75, tested negative “and is feeling fine. He\u2019s quarantining until our household is fully in the clear. Movie recommendations appreciated!”
Clinton\u2019s positive test result came the same day White House press secretary Jen Psaki <\/a>announced she wouldn\u2019t be accompanying President Joe Biden on his upcoming trip to Europe because she tested positive for the virus earlier in the day.
Sen.\u00a0Bob Casey<\/a>, D-Pa., also announced Tuesday that he\u2019d tested positive for the virus, adding that he was asymptomatic.
\u201cThis is reminder that the pandemic is not over,\u201d Casey tweeted. \u201cPlease get vaccinated and boosted.\u201d
The virus has been hitting the upper echelons of Washington’s political circles in the past few weeks. Second gentleman Doug Emhoff<\/a> tested positive for the virus last week, though Vice President Kamala Harris has since tested negative.
Former President Barack Obama announced on March 13 that he’d tested positive<\/a> for the virus, noting he had a scratchy throat. Like the others, he credited being vaccinated and boosted as the reason he only had mild symptoms.
A subvariant of omicron<\/a> called BA.2 accounts for nearly 35 percent of Covid-19 cases in the U.S., the\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0said Tuesday, a roughly 10 percent increase from the week before, when\u00a0BA.2\u00a0<\/a>was detected in 23 percent of U.S. cases.
At the same time, coronavirus cases nationwide have fallen almost 24 percent in the past two weeks, according to NBC News\u2019 Covid Data Dashboard<\/a>.
Dareh Gregorian is a politics reporter for NBC News.
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