Former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tested positive for COVID-19, as did several family members, including her 12-year-old son Trig, she said Wednesday.
"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," the 57-year-old mother-of-five said in a statement to People.
Palin said she experienced "bizarre" symptoms, including a loss of taste and smell, leading her to assume it was "unmistakable COVID caught me."
Palin said she realized the potentially-deadly virus may have infected her family when "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."
After observing her daughter's symptoms, she soon noticed symptoms in Trig, who was born with Down Syndrome. "Children with special needs are vulnerable to COVID ramifications, so with a high fever he was prescribed azithromycin, which really seemed to help, and I increased amounts of vitamins I put in his puréed food," she said.
Outlining her experience, she ends with a plea for all. "I strongly encourage everyone to use common sense to avoid spreading this and every other virus out there," she said. "There are more viruses than there are stars in the sky, meaning we'll never avoid every source of illness or danger."
She continued, "Please be vigilant, don't be frightened, and I advise reprioritizing some personal time and resources to ensure as healthy a lifestyle as you can create so when viruses do hit, you have at least some armor to fight it."
She went on to urge everyone to wear a mask, no matter how "cumbersome" it may be.
"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 explained.
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