Sarah Palinhas tested positive forCOVID-19, and she’s urging others to continue taking the pandemic seriously.
Palin, 57 — who is a mom to five children with ex-husband Todd — says her case is proof that “anyone can catch this.”
It was a recent diagnosis: In an Instagram video on Tuesday night, she said the “worst thing about COVID” was that “when you’re not feeling well, don’t you still just want your mom?”
“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 says in her statement.
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Of her illness, Palin explains that it began 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.”
“I then observed symptoms in my son Trig, who curiously is the most enthusiastic mask-wearer, and after our numerous negative tests over the year, he tested positive,” Palin says. “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.”
Palin says she and her son “buckled down in isolated quarantine” and she “still tested negative.” However, “symptoms started overnight with a slight fever and sore muscles.”
She adds that she had some of the “bizarre” symptoms characteristic of the virus, like a loss of taste and smell, leading her to assume it was “unmistakable COVID caught me.”
“That day I finally tested positive — like millions of other Americans,” she says.
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Palin tells PEOPLE that COVID-19 can “really knock you down,” encouraging everyone to remain vigilant about public health amid the ongoing pandemic.
“I strongly encourage everyone to use common sense to avoid spreading this and every other virus out there,” she says in her statement. “There are more viruses than there are stars in the sky, meaning we’ll never avoid every source of illness or danger … But 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.”
Palin, who announced in January thather mother, Sally, had died, says that dad Chuck Heath “just got” his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I’m more concerned about him and his peers, and this beautiful older generation’s health and quality of life should be a national focus and priority,” she says.
“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,” Palin says. “And history will show weMasked Singervisitors were masked before being masked was cool.”
PresidentJoe Biden, in a March 18 speech, emphasized that vaccines will help end the pandemic, noting thatsome states are seeing a rise in casesas newer variants spread through the country.
“Getting vaccinated is the best thing we can do to fight back against these variants,” he said.
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