Multiple attendees at the convention in Chicago last week subsequently tested positive for the COVID-19 respiratory illness, as health officials worry about infections spiking across the country.

“When you spend five days in Chicago for the DNC and come home with COVID-19. Womp womp,” Christopher Wiggins, a reporter at The Advocate, an LGBTQ magazine, posted on X.

Several others also shared their diagnosis on social media.
“Indeed. I arrived at the DNC healthy and hopeful and left very sick and disillusioned,” human rights lawyer Yasmine Taeb wrote on X.

It is not immediately clear how widespread the virus was at the four-day party gathering in Chicago last week. Tens of thousands of people converged upon the Windy City for the convention.

United Center, where the main speeches took place, has a capacity of about 20,000 people, a spokesperson told The Post.

https://nypost.com/2024/08/25/us-news/dnc-attendees-test-positive-for-covid-19-despite-mask-wearing/