The two members of Congress were exposed to a man with the coronavirus at CPAC.
March 9, 2020, 3:53 AMSen. Ted Cruz is one of two members of Congress to announce Sunday night that he is placing himself into voluntary self-quarantine after he interacted briefly with a person who is infected by theCruz said the “interaction consisted of a brief conversation and a handshake” and that he is “not experiencing any symptoms.”
In this file photo taken on January 23, 2020 US Senator Ted Cruz speaks during a press conference during a break in the Senate impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. CPAC, which in previous years has drawn upwards of 19,000 attendees, had speakers that included President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, then acting White House Chief of Staff and Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney.
While Cruz said in his statement that he is “fine and healthy,” at least two members of Congress have died from a viral infection in the last twenty years. Rep. Patsy Takemoto Mink, who in 1990 became the first Asian American woman elected to Congress, died in September 2002 of viral pneumonia. Despite her passing, her name remained on the ballot that November where she was reelected by a wide margin.
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