Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who announced this week that she and two of her family members tested positive for COVID-19, said she has received the results for the rest of her family.
In a Wednesday morning tweet, the mayor wrote: “We FINALLY received our test results taken 8 days before. One person in my house was positive then. By the time we tested again, 1 week later, 3 of us had COVID. If we had known sooner, we would have immediately quarantined. Perhaps the National Guard can help with testing too.”
When she revealed her positive diagnosis Monday, Bottoms said her husband and one of their children tested positive, too.
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Another child tested negative. Two others and her mother still needed to be tested, she said. Bottoms did not disclose their results in Wednesday’s tweet.
In the post, the mayor appears to acknowledge that she was aware of her exposure risk when she hosted a Sunday news conference filled with a room full of police, fire Chief Randall Slaughter, three Atlanta City Council members, media and family members of 8-year-old shooting victim Secoriea Turner.
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She wore a mask but removed it to make lengthy remarks about Turner’s death, which occurred Saturday near the torched Wendy’s that had been occupied by armed demonstrators in the aftermath of Rayshard Brooks’ police killing last month.
Interim police Chief Rodney Bryant also spoke at the microphone.
Slaughter has opted to self-quarantine pending the results of a COVID-19 test.
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Bottoms told MSNBC on Monday that she got tested because her husband had been sleeping a lot since Thursday.
“Which is just not like him,” she said.
In another tweet Wednesday, the mayor indicated she was tested after attending a funeral.
“Proactive testing, period,” Bottoms said. “No one in my house had symptoms then and no reason to quarantine.”
The news conference scenario can be low-risk if proper precautions are taken, according to Emory University infectious disease expert Dr. Marybeth Sexton. She said it was unlikely most attendees of the mayor’s news conference were exposed as long as they were wearing masks.
The CDC defines exposure as at least 15 minutes of face-to-face contact with a COVID-19 carrier when neither party is wearing a mask.
According to Sexton, it is also unlikely that the interim police chief could have been infected from speaking into the same microphone as Bottoms.
“Surface contamination is thought to be rare,” Sexton said. “You would have to put your hand on the microphone and then in your mouth.”
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