Mayor Scott Remains In Quarantine After Testing Positive For COVID-19; Contact Tracing Efforts Underway

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Mayor Brandon Scott remains successful quarantine aft investigating affirmative for COVID-19 Monday morning.

The mayor’s bureau said helium feels OK, he’s continuing to enactment remotely from home.

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He attended Sunday day the Parade of Latino Nations present connected Eastern Avenue.

It was 1 of respective nationalist events the days earlier the affirmative test.

The politician was vaccinated successful March.

He had attended a flurry of events the past fewer days, including a groundbreaking connected Saturday, a COVID-19 update Friday and 5 nationalist events Thursday, starting with a recycling bin organisation that morning.

Those events were each outdoors. Some masked, others not.

His unit said helium tested antagonistic Friday connected a regular test.

Scott’s squad said helium is asymptomatic.

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Baltimore County’s enforcement was among the chap nationalist officials to scope retired to the politician Monday.

“It’s encouraging to cognize he’s not showing immoderate symptoms,” said Johnny Olszewski Jr. “He seems to beryllium successful bully wellness and bully spirits. And, again, that reinforces the value of having folks get the COVID-19 vaccine. That is the full point.”

“The vaccines support the corruption that radical person to rather mild symptoms,” said Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist with Johns Hopkins.

Hopkins doctors Friday said the information shows astir radical are well-protected by their vaccines. But it is not uncommon to get COVID aft vaccination.

“This microorganism replicates truly quickly, truthful it becomes an arms contention betwixt the microorganism and our memory-immune response,” said Dr. Bill Moss.

Scott was not disposable for a virtual interrogation connected Tuesday.

As acold arsenic interaction tracing, the CDC considers a “close contact” anyone wrong six feet of an infected idiosyncratic for a full of 15 minutes oregon much implicit the people of a day.

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The wellness section is moving with the politician connected those interaction tracing efforts.

Paul Gessler