Sarah Palin tested positive for COVID-19, she said.
The former Alaska governor and running mate of late presidential candidate John McCain didn’t specify when she received her result. She warned others to take proper precautions and signaled the value of wearing masks to slow the spread of the virus.
“As confident as I’d like to be about my own health, and despite my joking that I’m blessed to constantly breathe in the most sterile (frozen!) air, my case is perhaps one of those that proves anyone can catch this,” she told People in a statement. “One of my daughters awoke to having lost her sense of taste and smell [and] immediately had a positive COVID test, then was quarantined in isolation.”
Palin’s son Trig, who has Down syndrome, had been one of the other members of the family to be infected.
“Through it all, I view wearing that cumbersome mask indoors in a crowd as not only allowing the newfound luxury of being incognito, but trust it’s better than doing nothing to slow the spread,” she said.
“And history will show we Masked Singer visitors were masked before being masked was cool,” Palin added, joking about her appearance on The Masked Singer. “I strongly encourage everyone to use common sense to avoid spreading this and every other virus out there.”
