Louisiana GOP Rep. Clay Higgins Says He Has COVID-19 for the Second Time On 7/25/21 at 10:49 PM EDT Representative Clay Higgins said Sunday that he and his wife have become infected with COVID-19 for the second time. "I have COVID, Becca has COVID, my son has COVID. Becca and I had COVID before, early on, in January 2020, before the world really knew what it was. So, this is our second experience with the [Chinese Comminist Party] biological attack weaponized virus," Higgins wrote in a statement shared to Facebook, repeating a conspiracy theory that China had produced the coronavirus in a lab and intentionally released it onto the world.