Some REALLY good news from right now 11.30 EST Jan 16

[Stinky The Clown]

New Jersey Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman is on MSNBC with Tiffany Cross. She says her Covid symptoms have been like a common cold. She is now feeling better.

This is the woman who is 75 years old, a cancer survivor and was subjected to maskless REPUBLICAN ASSHOLES during the Jan 6 Capitol siege.

[Walleye]

1. That is good news. Thanks

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Good news indeed

I curse the execrable maskholes who put her life at risk.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Wasn't she vaccinated? That might have helped alleviate symptoms...

but good on her.

[DrToast]

7. I think they all received the first shot

Which provides some protection, so it very likely helped.

[Midnight Writer]

45. Yes, she was a week shy of getting her second shot.

[hlthe2b]

4. She (fortunately) received monoclonal antibody treatment.

[FarPoint]

10. I am so very grateful she did

receive the antibodies...

[NutmegYankee]

5. I have a sense that the vaccine, why not yet able to protect them completely, probably helped

Their body was already on high alert to attack the virus when they were exposed.

[LymphocyteLover]

37. yes, even one dose should offer partial protection

[DonaldsRump]

6. Thank heavens. Those grinning buffoons in the House

who were mocking Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester during the January 6 insurrection in the Capitol when she was trying to hand them masks should be expelled from Congress.

[BrightKnight]

8. How many days since symptoms started?

Days 7 to 10 are dangerous. I have seen it go south then.

[onecaliberal]

9. Thank goodness.

[FarPoint]

11. My question...

If several Democrats contracted COVID 19 from an unmasked republican...then who is the carrier/ republican with covids?

[Irish_Dem]

12. I have been wondering the same thing. Maybe more than one of them since they don't wear masks. nt

[Tanuki]

33. We know that TN Congressman Chuck Fleischmann was there and voted to overthrow the electoral

results. He "later" learned that he was covid positive at the time.

https://newschannel9.com/news/coronavirus/us-rep-chuck-fleischmann-tests-positive-for-covid-19

..."In an interview on Monday on the Mix 104.1 WCLE radio station in Cleveland, Fleischmann said when he voted to object to some states' election results after the House went back in session Wednesday, he was aware that he had been exposed to COVID-19, but he did not know at that point whether he was positive. (Watch the full interview below):".....(more)

[FarPoint]

35. Ahhhhhh

This needs to be accompanying the story of the Democrats getting + covids...it shows the contact tracing element...Can reinforce the need for practicing covid-19 prevention protocols.

[deurbano]

56. He should have been in quarantine, instead of trying to overturn an election, but

they are who they are. I wonder if he wore a mask in the lockdown, especially knowing he'd been exposed.

[srose58089]

13. Wonderful News

Thanks for the wonderful news

[Sucha NastyWoman]

14. Happy to hear this

[ananda]

15. Those monoclonal antibodies must really work!

So glad!

[LizBeth]

16. I am glad to hear it and I think it might be because she got her first shot so it makes

symptoms not as bad.

[orleans]

17. thanks. i've been wondering how she's doing. nt

[Warpy]

18. I hope that's all it is and she recovers fully

but people who get clobbered by this thing get clobbered in the second week, usually not the first.

[Hortensis]

25. Always a concern, but at least sounds like she got good treatment.

A new very strong government focus is going to be on developing good treatments, not just vaccines.

[NNadir]

19. My congresswoman! I'm relieved. n/t.

[in2herbs]

20. This is good news. I just got a call from my housekeeper. She has covid and has two kids to

support as a single mom. I could hear in her voice how scared she is. Biden can't come soon enough.

[lillypaddle]

21. Thank God!

[barbtries]

22. that is really good news.

i just found out today that a former co-worker had covid and was hospitalized for 20 days; she now has stage 3 kidney failure. her son had to go the ER with covid last night.
this virus is simply vicious.

[Fla Dem]

23. Hip Hip Hooray! So happy for her.

[BainsBane]

24. I hope it stays that way.

[halfulglas]

26. Still pisses me off, though.

Pisses me off that these assholes don't seem to get seriously ill in proportion to their role in spreading the virus. They romp around often asymptomatic spreading the virus far and wide.

[gibraltar72]

27. I believe she had the high dollar Rudy Chris Christie monoclonal treatment.

[Crunchy Frog]

43. For once it went to someone who actually deserved it.

[Roc2020]

28. Awesome news!!

[StarryNite]

29. Extremely good news.

[left-of-center2012]

31. Good for her, but ...

Around 400,000 have died from it in the US.

[Stinky The Clown]

34. Why would you post that in this thread

I would bet a year's pay that NO ONE on DU is unaware of that fact. Posting it diminishes the news in the OP.

[EarnestPutz]

36. Yeah, what Stinky said.

[left-of-center2012]

42. Thousands of Americans are dying everyday

We can never forget that.
Never.

[Stinky The Clown]

44. So in your view this thread . . . . does what? Denies that fact? Casts it as untrue?

Your statement is true and no one is arguing that.

The question is why you chose to post it in this thread.

[left-of-center2012]

46. Why ask why?

Bye

[Stinky The Clown]

47. Why?

Because your post in this thread, given its celebratory intent for a member of Congress medically assaulted by right wing Maskholes was incredibly misplaced and came across as saying the Congress woman didn't matter.

Bye.

[left-of-center2012]

50. That's very judgmental

You know what they say about opinions.

[Stinky The Clown]

52. I do! I also know what "bye" means.

And how flames attract moths.

Have a swell evening for yourself

[Blue Owl]

32. K&R

[LymphocyteLover]

38. yes, I was worried abou ther especially when they said she was at the hospital

[SunSeeker]

40. She was at the hospital getting Regeneron. You can only get it in the hospital.

It's an IV infusion. I'm sure it saved her and why she is already feeling better. Trump got the same thing. But most of us can't get it.

[SunSeeker]

39. She got Regeneron right away, like Trump did. That makes all the difference in the world.

Most people can't get Regeneron, unfortunately.

[Ligyron]

41. Rats, I thought you were going to tell us Trump got arrested early.

Because it's hard to imagine him behaving himself until 12 on Wednesday and not trying something stupid, like maybe another coup attempt with the My Pillow Guy. They must have hime heavily sedated.

But I'll take this as a bit of good news in a week of good and bad.

[BumRushDaShow]

48. Good news and hope it holds

because I have heard so many anecdotal reports of people "feeling better" and then a few days later, experiencing a set back. Hopefully the regeneron would have been the ticket for her.

[BobTheSubgenius]

49. Lucky her, lucky constituents.

I am very glad to hear this news!

[Stinky The Clown]

53. Who won the Darwin Award in this story?

[Cha]

54. Strong immune system! Wonderful!

[panfluteman]

55. It Seems to Me That Individual Constitutional Factors,

As yet little known or elucidated, may play an important role in who has an easy time with COVID, and who doesn't. This NJ congresswoman had all the standard high risk factors - age and pre-existing immuno-compromising conditions, but still, she got off relatively lightly with COVID. Conversely, others in their prime and apparently healthy, have been felled by the infection.

[deurbano]

57. She also got the monoclonal antibodies (timing can be tricky, but getting frequent tests helps, and

I am sure she has access to that), plus she had her first dose of the vaccine at the end of Dec.... so maybe those both helped?

[demtenjeep]

58. oh thank god

so worried about her

[ecstatic]

59. Thank goodness! Nt