Utah Senate Leader Chaired Despite Testing Positive

After testing positive for Covid-19 last week, Utah Senate President Stuart Adams (R) “opened the 2022 session unmasked, conducting business as normal and trying to reassure senators and the public he was fully recovered,” the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

“Adams initially said he’d tested positive twice for COVID-19 since yesterday but backtracked seconds later. ‘I tested negative twice,’ he said, joking that he’d misspoken to make sure people were listening.”

“In reality, the senator had indeed tested positive twice Tuesday morning.”