‘The View’ host Whoopi Goldberg surprised by catching COVID-19 despite being triple vaccinated.
QUICK FACTS:
- The actress and View host missed the first episode of the show appearing via a remote live from her home after she was positive with the virus over the Christmas holiday.
- Per Goldberg, she “left a couple of weeks ago, just before the break, because somebody I had been around tested positive for coronavirus.”
- “It was a shock because you know I’m triple vaxxed, haven’t been anywhere, haven’t done anything,” the host stated.
- A new study out of Denmark found that the Omicron variant spreads faster within vaccinated communities (read more below).
GOLDBERG STILL ENDORSES VACCINE:
“Unless everybody gets vaccinated, this is what we’re gonna be facing for the next little while,” Goldberg said.
BACKGROUND:
- “A Danish study of nearly 12,000 households conducted by researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Statistics Denmark and Statens Serum Institut (SSI) has discovered that Omicron spreads faster than Delta among those who are fully vaccinated, and even higher between those who have received booster shots, demonstrating strong evidence of the variant’s immune evasiveness,” according to Zero Hedge.
- The researcher go on to suggest considering alternate methods for combating the infection: “Our data indicate that the non-pharmaceutical interventions that were used to control the previous variants of SARS-CoV-2 are also likely to be effective against the Omicron VOC.”
