House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesman announced on April 7. “After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic,” Drew Hammill, the spokesman, said in a statement. Pelosi is quarantining in adherence with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Pelosi has received a primary vaccination series and a booster, but the three vaccines in the United States are increasingly unable to prevent infection following the emergence of the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Pelosi, 82, had a press conference scheduled Thursday before the diagnosis. One of the oldest members of Congress, the Democrat is considered at high risk of contracting a severe case of the illness because of her advanced age. So is President Joe Biden, 79, who was close to Pelosi during an event on Wednesday. Pelosi was …