A Republican member of Congress from Louisiana said Sunday that he was sick with Covid-19 for the second time as a surge of new infections hits parts of the U.S. with low vaccination rates.
Referring to the disease as the “biological attack weaponized virus” from China, Rep. Clay Higgins said on Facebook that the latest infection is “far more challenging” than his bout with the coronavirus in January 2020.
It was unclear whether the earlier infection was confirmed, and researchers have said there isn’t enough evidence yet to know the virus’s origins. Higgins said Sunday that he developed Covid-19 “before the world knew what it was.”
Higgins, a former law enforcement officer first elected in 2016, said his wife and son also have the disease.
Higgins has encouraged people to get vaccinated, although he has not publicly said whether he has been inoculated. In April, he told the editorial board of the Daily American newspaper of Lake Charles, Louisiana, that he had “natural immunity” because he had contracted Covid-19 before.
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