{"id":50763,"date":"2022-07-25T13:41:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50763"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T17:41:43","slug":"manchin-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50763","title":{"rendered":"MANCHIN TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u00a0(D-W.Va.) said Monday that he tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning I tested positive for COVID-19,\u201d Manchin, 74, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am fully vaccinated and boosted and am experiencing mild symptoms. I will isolate and follow CDC guidelines as I continue to work remotely to serve West Virginians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Manchin is the latest in a string of senators to test positive, as well as President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Democrats\u2019 dilemma:\u00a0<\/strong>If other Democrats test positive next week, it could pose an obstacle for passing a health care measure that would lower prescription drug prices and continue enhanced financial assistance under the Affordable Care Act.\u00a0Manchin is a key vote on the measure in a Senate split evenly between the two parties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sens.\u00a0Tom Carper\u00a0(D-Del.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) also tested positive last week.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin could be out of isolation after five days, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, if his symptoms are improving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u00a0(D-W.Va.) said Monday that he&#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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50763","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=50763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50764,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50763\/revisions\/50764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}