2008 Republican party Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin
(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said has tested positive for Covid-19 and warned her case is proof that “anyone can catch this” virus.
The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee urged people to help slow the spread of the virus by wearing face masks.
Palin, a mother-of-five, told People magazine that some of her family members also contracted 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,” Ms Palin told People magazine in a statement.
She said her daughter first started experiencing symptoms of coronavirus when she woke up one morning and had lost her sense of taste and smell.
Ms Palin’s 12-year-old son Trig, who was born with Down’s Syndrome, then tested positive for the virus.
She said she “buckled down in isolated quarantine” with Trig and after testing negative, she eventually tested positive for the disease.
“I strongly encourage everyone to use common sense to avoid spreading this and every other virus out there,” said Ms Palin.
She also advised “re-prioritizing 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 armour to fight it.”
The former governor referenced her appearance on The Masked Singer as she reminded the public about the importance of wearing face masks.
She said: “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.
“And history will show we Masked Singer visitors were masked before being masked was cool.”
