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| Covid-19 panic at The View ahead of Kamala Harris’ appearance sees two hosts yanked off live on air | Covid-19 panic at The View ahead of Kamala Harris’ appearance sees two hosts yanked off live on air |
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| The View’s Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were told they had tested positive for Covid-19 just moments before they were due to interview US Vice President Kamala Harris, leaving their co-hosts mired in awkwardness and confusion. | The View’s Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were told they had tested positive for Covid-19 just moments before they were due to interview US Vice President Kamala Harris, leaving their co-hosts mired in awkwardness and confusion. |
| A production assistant stepped in to request that Navarro and Hostin “step off for a second” just after the ABC talk show went out live on Friday and co-host Joy Behar was to introduce special guest Harris. | A production assistant stepped in to request that Navarro and Hostin “step off for a second” just after the ABC talk show went out live on Friday and co-host Joy Behar was to introduce special guest Harris. |
| “Sunny and Ana both apparently tested positive for Covid. No matter how hard we try, these things happen. They probably have a breakthrough case and they’ll be OK, I’m sure, because they’re both vaccinated up the wazoo – you know, a lot of vaccines,” Behar improvised, another assistant having stopped her in mid-flow as she was about to introduce the vice president. | “Sunny and Ana both apparently tested positive for Covid. No matter how hard we try, these things happen. They probably have a breakthrough case and they’ll be OK, I’m sure, because they’re both vaccinated up the wazoo – you know, a lot of vaccines,” Behar improvised, another assistant having stopped her in mid-flow as she was about to introduce the vice president. |
| Deprived of their guest, Behar and her remaining co-host Sara Haines began taking questions from the audience, with Behar revealing she likes to make up “X-rated” parody songs and Haines claiming she could walk on her hands “but not in this dress.” | Deprived of their guest, Behar and her remaining co-host Sara Haines began taking questions from the audience, with Behar revealing she likes to make up “X-rated” parody songs and Haines claiming she could walk on her hands “but not in this dress.” |
| Their awkwardness was compounded by the ironic chyron that had introduced the doomed segment, boasting that “experts” were claiming “vaccinated not as likely to spread Covid.” That claim represents a change from the line taken in previous Centers for Disease Control (CDC) statements that both vaccinated and unvaccinated groups carried the same viral load. | Their awkwardness was compounded by the ironic chyron that had introduced the doomed segment, boasting that “experts” were claiming “vaccinated not as likely to spread Covid.” That claim represents a change from the line taken in previous Centers for Disease Control (CDC) statements that both vaccinated and unvaccinated groups carried the same viral load. |
| Viewers were transfixed by the televised train wreck. Some wondered what had happened to the famed Covid scolds’ vaunted viral virtue, now they were the ones infected. | Viewers were transfixed by the televised train wreck. Some wondered what had happened to the famed Covid scolds’ vaunted viral virtue, now they were the ones infected. |
| Others saw it as karmic retribution. | Others saw it as karmic retribution. |
| Behar ultimately interviewed Harris remotely, the VP praising the nation’s vaccination effort from an undisclosed location elsewhere in the ABC building, calling the Covid-stricken pair “strong women” and expressing her relief that they’d been double-jabbed, “otherwise we’d be concerned about hospitalization or worse.” | Behar ultimately interviewed Harris remotely, the VP praising the nation’s vaccination effort from an undisclosed location elsewhere in the ABC building, calling the Covid-stricken pair “strong women” and expressing her relief that they’d been double-jabbed, “otherwise we’d be concerned about hospitalization or worse.” |
| While much has been made by US health authorities about a so-called “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” breakthrough infections among those who’ve received their shots accounted for 14,000 hospitalizations and deaths as of September 7, according to CDC data. | While much has been made by US health authorities about a so-called “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” breakthrough infections among those who’ve received their shots accounted for 14,000 hospitalizations and deaths as of September 7, according to CDC data. |
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