{"id":387955,"date":"2021-12-31T07:57:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T04:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-york-gubernatorial-candidate-rob-astorino-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-12-31T07:57:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T04:57:58","slug":"new-york-gubernatorial-candidate-rob-astorino-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-york-gubernatorial-candidate-rob-astorino-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"#New York Gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#New York Gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino tests positive for COVID-19<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Rob-Astorino.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino said Thursday he tested positive for the coronavirus in a breakthrough case as infections soar across the Empire State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tested positive for Covid yesterday,\u201d Astorino <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobAstorino\/status\/1476612443967262721\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cI feel better today. Cold-like symptoms. I\u2019m vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Westchester County executive, who has been a critic of vaccine mandates, said he encouraged people in high-risk categories to speak with their doctors and consider getting a shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt won\u2019t prevent you from getting infected but it should help w\/ severity of illness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate, who hasn\u2019t gotten a booster shot and received his result from an at-home test, doubled down on his opposition to mandates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy opinion on how bad our so-called leaders have handled this hasn\u2019t changed either,\u201d Astorino told The Post. \u201cThey\u2019ve been wrong on just about everything and continue to change the goalposts and narratives. We need to move forward and get back to some sense of normalcy, especially for our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I tested positive for Covid yesterday. I feel better today. Cold-like symptoms. I\u2019m vaccinated. <\/p>\n<p>I encourage those esp in high-risk<br \/>categories to talk w\/ their Dr &amp; consider getting the shot. It won&#8217;t prevent you from getting infected but it should help w\/ severity of illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Astorino (@RobAstorino) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobAstorino\/status\/1476612443967262721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Astorino, who served as Westchester County executive from 2010-17, was the GOP nominee for governor in 2014 when he lost to Democrat Andrew Cuomo. He\u2019s now vying for the party nod for 2022 alongside frontrunner Rep. Lee Zeldin and Andrew Giuliani, son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Cold-like symptoms. I\u2019m vaccinated.\u201d The former Westchester County executive,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Rob-Astorino.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[122838,1545,82862,98806,94363,106263],"class_list":["post-387955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-30-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-lee-zeldin","tag-rob-astorino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}