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Two Democratic members of Congress are blaming Republicans after each tested positive for coronavirus, believing they contracted the virus as a result of being in close proximity with GOP colleagues who refused to wear masks during the storming of the Capitol building last week by supporters of President Donald Trump. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-New Jersey), a 75-year-old lung cancer survivor, announced on Monday she had received a positive test result from a coronavirus rapid test she took. Though she initially said in a statement that she was in “good spirits,” her condition apparentl...

Capitol Riot Likely a Superspreader Event By Ralph Ellis This story was updated Jan. 12, 2021 with more members of Congress testing positive.  Jan. 11, 2021 -- The storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Trump on Wednesday was probably a superspreader event that “will have public health consequences,” CDC Director Robert Redfield said in an interview with McClatchy Newspapers. That prediction is starting to come true as at least four members of Congress have since announced they’ve tested positive for COVID-19. “I do think you have to anticipate that this is an...

A selection of photos from Jan. 3-9, 2021, by The Wall Street Journal’s photo editors Jan. 9, 2021 4:30 pm ET Ming Kuo helped a Covid-19 patient at Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center in Southern California as the overflowing emergency room spilled into the hallway. “It’s a desperate time,” said Dr. Eric Toner, a senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “This is what we have been warning about for a year now.” The surge of coronavirus cases is crowding large metro hospitals with Covid-19 patients, pushing occupancy...

She said she viewed the incident as a "superspreader event". "About half of the people in the room are not wearing masks," she said. "Even though they've been offered surgical masks, they refuse to wear them." She said the majority of those refusing the masks were Republicans, particularly recently elected Republicans. Late on Wednesday, Rep Jake LaTurner learned he was positive with the coronavirus. Mr LaTurner is a Republican, but it is not known whether he was wearing a mask during the lockdown. Eric Toner, senior scholar at the John Hopkins Center for Health Security, told “This was ...

U.S. surpasses 300,000 daily coronavirus cases, the second alarming record this week Paulina Villegas, Antonia Noori Farzan, Erin Cunningham, Kim Bellware, Siobhán O'Grady, Taylor Telford, Lateshia Beachum © Jae C. Hong/AP An EMT disinfects a gurney after transporting a patient to St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., on Thursday. The United States on Friday surpassed 300,000 daily coronavirus cases, the second alarming record this week. The number, which roughly equates to the population of St. Louis, Pittsburgh or Cincinnati, comes about two months after the country r...