Several people who attended the Democratic National Convention (DNC) have announced they have tested positive for COVID-19.
According to the New York Post, attendees, including reporters, lawyers, and delegates, have now contracted the virus.
“When you spend five days in Chicago for the DNC and come home with COVID-19,” Christopher Wiggins, a senior national reporter with the Advocate, wrote in a post on X. “Womp womp.”
“A friend who was at the DNC posted a positive test and said the surprise guest was, in fact, Covid,” another person wrote in a post on X, referring to reports that a surprise guest was supposed to appear on the last day of the convention.
“Indeed,” Yasmine Taeb, a human rights lawyer, wrote in a post on X in response to the post that the “surprise guest” at the DNC had been COVID-19.
Taeb also said she had “arrived at the DNC healthy and hopeful and left very sick and disillusioned.”
ared Schablein, a Maryland delegate to the DNC, wrote in a Facebook post that the “downside of going to the DNC” was getting COVID-19 and added that his symptoms were “mild.”
“Well, the only downside of going to the DNC is contracting Covid-19,” Schablein wrote. “Fortunately, my symptoms are mild, and I’m resting. Still not fun, though.”
Schablein wrote that “a good chunk of the Maryland delegation” had allegedly tested positive for COVID-19.
Meanwhile, several people took to social media to criticize the DNC organizers for having “no mitigations during a massive COVID surge.”
“It’s infuriating that the DNC required no mitigations during a massive covid surge,” David Kronig, who works with the nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight, wrote in a post.
“It’s so irresponsible on a community level but also so short-sighted. These are the most engaged Democrats in the country, & now they’re all gonna be out of the fight for weeks, months, or forever.”
Another person slammed an interview on CNN in which a person was asked what it was “like being in a room” for an event that “four years ago” would have been labeled a “superspreader event.”
“There is so much information in this interview,” the person wrote on X.
“The DNC convention is a superspreader and happening during the peak of one of the largest summer COVID surges of the pandemic.”
