Utah Rep. Ben McAdams on recovery from COVID-19: 'It hit me really hard… Please take this seriously'

'I'm young...I'm healthy,' he says. 'It could happen to anyone.'

“It hit me really hard. But I’m doing so much better right now. I'm virus-free,” he said. “They told me I can be out of quarantine. I still am practicing social distancing and remaining isolated but I'm doing so much better.”

Utah Rep. Ben McAdams tested positive for COVID-19 earlier in March is now recovered and working from home.On March 18, McAdams became the second member of Congress to announce that he had tested positive for COVID-19 just hours after Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart. Now recovered, McAdams is urging all people, whether or not they fall into a category of people with increased risk for the virus or not, to “take this seriously.”“I'm young, I'm 45 years old, I'm healthy, I exercise every day and it hit me really hard,” he said. “Please take this seriously and follow the guidance of our public health officials.

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