At least four House Democrats test positive after a party retreat, but it’s difficult to know where they were infected.

Not less than 4 Home Democrats in fast succession have stated that they examined optimistic for the coronavirus after a celebration retreat held final week in Philadelphia.

Consultant Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania introduced her optimistic consequence on Monday; Representatives Zoe Lofgren of California and Kim Schrier of Washington introduced on Sunday, and Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut on Saturday.

All 4 representatives stated that they have been vaccinated and boosted, and have been experiencing solely delicate signs. All 4 attended the Home Democratic Caucus’s retreat in Philadelphia final week, based on an individual in attendance. It was not clear, and troublesome to know, whether or not they have been every uncovered and contaminated on the gathering, or elsewhere.

One other Home Democrat, Consultant Gerry Connolly of Northern Virginia, who stated he tested positive for the virus on Friday, was not current on the retreat, the particular person in attendance stated.

The retreat was the caucus’s first main in-person occasion in three years. It was meant to be one thing of a reset for the occasion heading into what is anticipated to be a troublesome midterm election season. A lot of the occasion’s legislative agenda has been hobbled by dissension between moderates and progressives, sophisticated by the tenuousness of the Democrats’ maintain on the Senate.

On Wednesday, Home Democrats discovered themselves having to chop $15.6 billion in deliberate funding for President Biden’s pandemic response efforts to safe passage of a necessary spending invoice.

The Home handed the measure, with $1.5 trillion in complete spending, late Wednesday night time. Distant voting was allowed, so it was unclear which of members have been bodily current for the vote. Many Democrats then departed for the Philadelphia retreat.

Mr. Biden addressed the gathering in particular person on Friday. Requested at White Home information convention on Monday why he was masked when coming into an occasion earlier within the day, the White Home press secretary, Jen Psaki, stated Mr. Biden typically does so if occasion tips require it, however that she would verify. She added that the president had acquired a unfavorable virus check consequence on Sunday.

A White Home spokesman, Kevin Munoz, stated that not one of the representatives on the retreat have been thought of shut contacts of the president, and that nothing had modified about his testing cadence.

All members of Congress who have been to attend, in addition to their employees members and households, have been required to submit P.C.R. or speedy antigen assessments earlier than the occasion, based on protocols shared by the communications director for the caucus. Attendees have been additionally required to take speedy assessments of their resort rooms on Thursday and Friday mornings, however masks weren’t required. The masks mandate for the Home ground on the Capitol constructing was dropped in late February, shortly earlier than Mr. Biden’s State of the Union tackle.

Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, additionally stated on Sunday that she had examined optimistic.

In all, not less than 100 members of Congress have introduced testing optimistic for the coronavirus for the reason that pandemic started, based on a tally by Ballotpedia, a nonpartisan election data web site.