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Ana Navarro revealed that she tested positive for COVID ahead of Thanksgiving and was “stuck quarantining” in a NYC hotel. She has now tested negative and is recovering from the virus.
The View cohost was absent from the ABC talk show starting on Monday, November 21 and is now letting her fans know why.
“It’s been a hell of a week. COVID got me again. Tested positive on Monday. Got stuck quarantining in a hotel in NYC. Took treatment,” she shared on Instagram on Saturday, November 26. “Fortunately, now feeling good and testing negative. I was triple-boosted and thought that protected me. I didn’t wear a mask anywhere. I got complacent.”
Navarro added that she “thought she just had a little head cold” and only found out it was COVID since ABC’s studio “constantly tests” the talent.
The celebrity stressed the importance of getting tested when someone feels symptoms as “there are now several readily available free-to-us treatments that can drastically reduce and shorten symptoms.”
“And if we get tested and know we have covid, it hopefully prevents us from going around spreading the damn thing,” she added.
At least she found some humor in her situation saying, “The one silver lining is that this is the first Thanksgiving in my adult life when I lose weight instead of gaining. Though @leeschrager sent leftovers from his feast and there’s a coconut cake in the fridge calling out my name. ‘Anaaaa.’ ‘Anaaaa, come eat me.’”
Navarro’s cohost Whoopi Goldberg had also recently tested positive for COVID and had missed a few episodes of the show to recover. Goldberg returned to the talk show the day Navarro tested positive for the virus.
