US Sen. Elizabeth Warren tests positive for COVID-19

(CNN) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren tested affirmative Sunday for the coronavirus, according to a tweet from her authoritative account.

The Massachusetts Democrat, who is vaccinated and boosted, said she is experiencing mild symptoms. Warren was connected the Senate level past week earlier the enclosure went connected recess.

“I regularly trial for COVID & portion I tested antagonistic earlier this week, contiguous I tested affirmative with a breakthrough case. Thankfully, I americium lone experiencing mild symptoms & americium grateful for the extortion provided against superior unwellness that comes from being vaccinated & boosted,” she tweeted. “As cases summation crossed the country, I impulse everyone who has not already done truthful to get the vaccine and the booster arsenic soon arsenic imaginable – together, we tin prevention lives.”

The announcement came arsenic the emergence of the omicron variant has thrust the federation — and the White House — backmost into an uncertain pandemic reality, posing both nationalist wellness and governmental challenges.

The United States is present facing a resurgent coronavirus arsenic the pandemic marches into its 3rd year: The state was averaging 126,967 caller cases per time arsenic of Saturday, according to information from Johns Hopkins University — up from an mean of conscionable much than 70,000 caller cases per time astatine the opening of November.

The state is likely successful for a hard wintertime arsenic the caller variant strains a wellness attraction strategy already battered by the delta variant, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday.

According to the World Health Organization, omicron cases are doubling each 1.5 to 3 days with documented spread. And successful the U.S., it’s expected to go the “dominant strain” successful the coming weeks, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said Friday.

This communicative has been updated with further accusation Sunday.