Sarah Palin is the latest to reveal she's tested positive for the deadly coronavirus and is urging others to put guidelines into normal practice.
The former governor of Alaska revealed in a statement to People that she contracted COVID-19 along with several of her family members. That includes her 12-year-old son, Trig.
Palin explained that she was confident about her own health, which proves that anyone can come in contact with 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 said.
Her coronavirus experience began with her children, who both began experiencing "bizarre" symptoms like loss of taste and smell followed by positive COVID tests.
After seeing the symptoms come up in one of her daughters, she later found symptoms in her son, Trig. "Children with special needs are vulnerable to COVID ramifications [Trig was born with Down syndrome], 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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