Kevin McCarthy might have had coronavirus infection when he attended son's wedding
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) earlier this year said he took “every precaution” before ignoring state rules and attending a maskless wedding ceremony and reception for his son during a December surge in COVID-19 cases in California.
What McCarthy did not disclose in defending the San Luis Obispo County gathering was that he learned later that he had tested positive for antibodies to the coronavirus.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the immune system can produce antibodies one to three weeks after a person is infected with the coronavirus. That means McCarthy could have been infectious, but asymptomatic, as he mingled with family members and others at the ceremony, experts say. It could also mean he contracted the coronavirus at the wedding or was infected long before the event and thus was no longer at risk of spreading it to others, according to the experts.
McCarthy told The Times that the 13 family members who attended the Dec. 5 wedding were tested for the virus beforehand and “were healthy then and have remained healthy. And like the choices families have made all across the country, the choices we made [were] ours.”
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-22/kevin-mccarthy-son-wedding-covid-19-infection
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