The Republican senator from Mississippi tested positive for the disease for the third time in 12 months.
A judge struck down the end of masks for public transportation.
The mask mandates should have been lifted in April 2021.
The senator from Mississippi tested positive for the disease for the third time in a year.
The communications director for Senator Wicker said that the senator got a positive result after taking a required test. He won't be able to vote this week until he is able to return to the Senate.
A positive test was announced in August 2021.
After a judge struck down mask mandates for planes and other public transportation in April, the Senate passed legislation to end it.
In March, he and two other Republican senators held a press conference in support of a joint resolution of disapproval that would have repealed the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) mask mandate on airplanes. The Biden administration enacted a mandate in January of 2021. The resolution was passed by the Senate but not by the House.
When asked by Insider when he thought the mandates should have been lifted, he said April 2021.
According to testimony from a public health expert, airplanes can remove 99% of the particles that cause diseases. The expert noted in his testimony that the use of face masks would not provide adequate protection against the disease and that the use of the filtration should be combined with face masks.
At the press conference, Wicker said that the rule had been nonsensical for a year.
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