Whoopi Goldberg Stunned After Testing Positive for COVID-19

[penelopetaynt]

The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg described being shocked when she learned she tested positive for coronavirus during the show's break for the Christmas and New Year holidays

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[genbu_no_miko24]

I could've sworn Whoopi said at some point last year or the year before that she has a tendency to be susceptible to colds and the like?

She mentions being vaccinated and boosted. I get the feeling at best that she probably went maskless at some point cause of the "well if everyone around me is vaccinated then I should be fine" mentality but I could be wrong.

Sucks either way.

[topismine]

Idk I know two people who are vaxxed, boosted, and always masked up who caught the omicron variant. It really is just that contagious. Where I really think it’s getting people is with washing our hands/ sanitizing. I feel like most of us don’t do it as much as before.

[sarahbear1]

Covid is airborne. You're unlikely to get it from a surface.

[whizzingfizbee]

I was vaxxed, boosted, kept myself to a really limited social circle, wore my mask constantly at work and while out, and I still got it. You're right. The vaccine is just not as effective against this variant. Its huge number of spike protein mutations make it really good at binding to host cells and avoiding detection by antibodies.

[unintentionalty]

The most careful person I know (whom I would put in the running for most careful person in the universe, frankly) still got it. She's a teacher in NYC. It's so contagious.