{"id":29357,"date":"2020-11-20T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29357"},"modified":"2020-11-20T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:18:00","slug":"rick-scott-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29357","title":{"rendered":"Rick Scott tests positive for coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said on Friday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, roughly a week after he started self-quarantining.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, in a statement, said that after getting multiple negative results, a test that he took on Tuesday came back positive on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter several negative tests, I learned I was positive this morning. I am feeling good and experiencing very mild symptoms. I will be working from home in Naples until it is safe for me to return to Washington, D.C.,&#8221; Scott said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Scott is the latest to test positive amid a new outbreak of cases among lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jfvfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbstvftm_ctdtccpdpftlhcmtpdtd.html?a=&amp;b=34996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jfvfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbstvftm_ctdtccpdpftlhcmtpdtd.html?a%3D%26b%3D34996&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1606028966120000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0vmysqD0EzwPBXs9MIrt08\">Chuck Grassley<\/a>\u00a0(R-Iowa), who is 87,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/pdydwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhfymdyc_ctdtccpdpftlhcmtpdtd.html?a=&amp;b=34996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/pdydwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhfymdyc_ctdtccpdpftlhcmtpdtd.html?a%3D%26b%3D34996&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1606028966120000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2w5U3l6IDU4DgszBOKWxC_\">also announced this week<\/a>\u00a0that he had tested positive but has said as recently as Thursday that he is symptom free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29358,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29357\/revisions\/29358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}