Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick Kept It Quiet That He Tested Positive For COVID19 Last Week
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) tested positive for COVID-19 back in August, his office disclosed that information the same day. Abbott followed protocols, isolating at the Governor’s Mansion where he received Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment. His office notified everyone he’d been in close contact with. Abbott had attended a “standing room only” campaign event in Collin County the night before his positive test. Four days later, Abbott tested negative and credited his vaccination for keeping the infection “brief and mild.”
Unfortunately, his Lieutenant Governor didn’t take the same actions when he received his own positive COVID results last week.
Texas is in the midst of an Omicron surge that began last month. As of Wednesday, the state’s positivity rate was 26.5%. During the height of the pandemic, state officials had said a positivity rate of more than 10% was cause for concern.
Greg Abbott is a horrible Governor. On the same day he asks for federal aid in fighting Covid, he boasts about “beating” Biden in measures that would help Texans fight Covid.
⭐️ TEXAS, Vote Beto 2022. pic.twitter.com/w4Ijzk6ijn
— Christopher 🇺🇸 Proud Dem (@cwebbonline) January 1, 2022
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s campaign announced Monday that he’s been in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 last week, but didn’t explain the delay in releasing the information to the public. Instead, Patrick’s senior adviser Allen Blakemore said in a brief media statement that the lieutenant governor experienced mild symptoms and tested positive for the virus last week, but has subsequently tested negative and is completing his quarantine period. “His symptoms were mild and no one else in the household was infected,” Blakemore told the Texas Tribune. “He continues working from home and will return to a public schedule by the end of the week.”
Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick both contracted Covid.
Thankfully, both were fully vaccinated AND boosted—so neither were hospitalized or had serious symptoms.
They lack the courage to urge you to get boosted—but the booster may have saved their lives. Go do it.
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) January 5, 2022
Patrick tweeted in November that he was vaccinated and encouraged “others to do their own research.” Like Abbott, his public statements have been more focused on fighting mandates than promoting immunization.
Can someone please tell me what @GregAbbott_TX or @DanPatrick or our current TX legislature has done to help our healthcare & frontline workers with PPE and being overwhelmed with understaffing? Anyone?
— Christa Johnson (@txchristabelle) December 29, 2021