Texas High Court Justice Tests Positive for Virus
Austin, Texas – A Texas Supreme Court justice said last week that she and her husband have tested positive for COVID-19 after going to a drive-through testing center with symptoms including body aches and fevers.
Justice Debra Lehrmann tweeted May 21 that she and her husband, Greg, tested positive for the disease caused by the coronavirus. She told the Dallas Morning News that they went to the Austin center last week after noticing symptoms. Lehrmann is the highest-ranking state official known to have tested positive. She said her health has not interfered with her job because the state Supreme Court is working remotely.
She said the couple have “strictly adhered” to stay-at-home orders since early March, cooking all their meals at home and wearing masks and gloves to the grocery story. They did get visits from family, which included an infant grandson.
“We were just extremely careful, and then we get it,” Lehrman told The Morning News. “How in the world would that happen? We have no idea. All I know is it must be very contagious.”
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