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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) announced this afternoon that he has tested positive for COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated against the virus.
“Mayor Garcetti tested positive for COVID-19 earlier today,” his office said in a statement posted to Twitter. “He is feeling good and isolating in his hotel room. He is fully vaccinated.”
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Mayor Garcetti tested positive for COVID-19 earlier today.
He is feeling good and isolating in his hotel room. He is fully vaccinated.
— MayorOfLA (@MayorOfLA) November 3, 2021
ABC7 reported that Garcetti, 50, is currently overseas in Glasgow, Scotland for the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Garcetti had a busy day planned for today, as he had been scheduled to moderate a “on international finance to support city climate action” before taking part in another discussion regarding solutions and challenges to tackling climate change. Thanks to his breakthrough case of COVID-19, however, all of that is out the window.
Garcetti got his first shot of the coronavirus vaccine back in January when medical personnel recommended he get the jab because he was working at Dodger Stadium as part of the city’s vaccination effort.
“Quite simply, it was strong medical advice from the people that were there, and what’s offered to everybody that’s working there,” Garcetti told Deadline at the time when he defended getting vaccinated even though it was not yet his turn in line to do so.
“I think it’s really important when people do get that medical advice to say, ‘Yes,’ and to be [an] example, not to be an example because you’re an elected official but when that comes, we need people to know you should say, ‘Yes,’ and that you should feel good about this vaccine being safe, and I wanted to make sure that we did that as well,” he added.
At the time, Garcetti went on to claim that the vaccine is safe and that side effects are minimal. Whoops!
“You kind of feel like you’ve worked out pretty hard on your shoulder the next day, and the next day you can’t feel anything from that soreness,” he said. “I’ve had flu shots and other vaccinations that felt worse than this one.”
Unfortunately for Garcetti, it seems that this vaccine did little to protect him from getting coronavirus all these months later. This just goes to show why millions of Americans continue to have concerns about these vaccines. Why get the shot, when you’re just going to get COVID anyway?
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