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Over the weekend, the supreme court announced that justice Clarence Thomas had been admitted to the hospital after experiencing “flu-like symptoms” and was then found to have an infection.
A court spokesperson said that Thomas, who has been vaccinated and boosted, did not have Covid-19. The court offered no explanation for why it waited two days to disclose that the justice was in the hospital.