U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the senior senator from Massachusetts, has tested positive for COVID-19.
Warren tweeted shortly after 4:30 p.m. Sunday that she had been notified of the positive test result earlier in the day after testing negative earlier this week. As a United States senator, she is tested regularly for COVID-19.
The 72-year-old Democrat stated that she is fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19, making her case a breakthrough infection, and that she is only experiencing mild symptoms.
She didn’t elaborate on where she might have contracted the virus but said she’s regularly tested and turned up negative for COVID-19 earlier this past week. Spokespersons for her office didn’t respond to an email seeking comment Sunday.
Warren was at the U.S. Capitol this week along with other senators as Democrats seek to pass President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion Build Back Better social and environment bill.
“As cases increase across the country, I urge everyone who has not already done so to get the vaccine and the booster as soon as possible,” Warren wrote in a follow-up tweet. “Together, we can save lives.”
Sen. Cory Booker, of New Jersey, also said he had tested positive for the virus.
In a statement from his office, Booker said: “I’m beyond grateful to have received two doses of vaccine and, more recently, a booster – I’m certain that without them I would be doing much worse.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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