There are few, if any, repercussions for California legislators who refuse to disclose whether they’ve been vaccinated for COVID-19. “I’m not going to, because it’s my choice,” said state Sen. Brian Dahle.
Both Burke and Jones declined to comment on their vaccination status when approached this week in Sacramento and would not say whether they believe contracting COVID-19 provided them adequate immunity. At least three other legislators who also became infected with COVID-19 last year told The Times they have received a vaccination: Assembly members Tom Lackey and Patrick O’Donnell and state Sen. Josh Newman .
But data provided by Senate and Assembly administrators show the percentage of legislative vaccinations drops when adding staff members to the mix, putting the vaccination rate among the workforce of the Legislature at 85%.“The answer is hell yeah and I’m resentful of science deniers coming to the Capitol and infecting vaxxed people with COVID,” Assemblyman Marc Levine after being contacted by The Times. “We have families. Don’t put everyone at risk.
“This year, lawmakers must get to work and stay at work despite the pandemic,” she said in a Facebook post in January. In the 40-member state Senate, all but five lawmakers said they are fully vaccinated, with inoculations disclosed by both Democrats and Republicans. The five who refused to do so are Dahle, Jones and Sens. Shannon Grove , Melissa Melendez and Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh .
Bogh, a first-term Republican who won in an Inland Empire district in 2020 where Democrats have a slight edge in voter registration, recorded a public service announcement this year touting COVID-19 vaccines as “one of our most powerful tools against this virus.” But she avoided taking a clear stand on the urgency of vaccinations.
Anyone who is unvaccinated or who declines to disclose their status must be tested twice a week for COVID-19, legislative officials said.
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