Wed Mar 16, 2022 – 7:37 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Former U.S. President Barack Obama and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, both announced this week they contracted COVID-19 despite being “fully vaccinated” and boosted.
“I just tested positive for COVID,” Obama wrote in a March 13 Twitter post.
The former president, who said he’s “grateful to be vaccinated and boosted,” explained he has had “a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise.”
Obama added that his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama, has thus far tested negative for the virus.
“It’s a reminder to get vaccinated if you haven’t already, even as cases go down,” he argued, regardless of the fact that the jabs don’t stop transmission or infection with the virus.
I just tested positive for COVID. I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise. Michelle and I are grateful to be vaccinated and boosted, and she has tested negative.
It’s a reminder to get vaccinated if you haven’t already, even as cases go down.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 13, 2022
Two days later on March 15, Emhoff
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