Ana Navarrois speaking out after she andThe ViewpanelistSunny Hostinwere asked to leave the talk show setwhile live on air aftertesting positive for COVID-19.
Hostin, 52, and Navarro, 49, were informed of their results while preparing to bringVice President Kamala Harrison stage for an interview. (A producer later told the audience the two women were tested again and were negative.)
Watching the moment backwhile appearing onAnderson Cooper 360, Navarro said that the ordeal felt “like an episode ofCurb Your Enthusiasm.”
“It takes so much work to do an interview like this and it’s something that we were excited about,” she said. “We were prepared to ask some tough questions. We were very proud to have the vice president come onThe Viewand all of a sudden it turned into like an episode ofCurb Your Enthusiasm. It was just surreal.”
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In the clip, she said that they were told in their earpieces about the positive results and were unsure of what to do.
After they left the stage, Navarro and Hostin were quarantined and kept away from Vice President Harris.
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“We had no contact with her for the entire day and so they’re trying to figure out what is the safe way to conduct this interview and how do we do this?” she explained. “And I’ve gotta say, her team rolled with it and…she ended up doing the interview from that room via remote…while we were locked up in our dressing rooms.”
Navarro explained that she is tested for COVID-19 weekly as a guest co-host onThe Viewand that the show takes other precautions to mitigate the spread of the virus on set.
Sunny Hostin (left), Ana Navarro on Friday’s show.The View
At this point, “all indications” are that the results from Friday morning are likely false positives, she added. They have since taken another rapid antigen test and a PCR test, which Navarro said both produced negative results for her.
Navarro added that she “can’t speak for Sunny,” adding that “it’s up to her to talk about her test results.” A rep for Hostin did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
“Sunny and Ana are strong women and I know they’re fine, but it really also does speak to the fact that they’re vaccinated and vaccines really make all the difference because otherwise we would be concerned about hospitalization and worse,” Harris said.
Breakthrough cases— COVID-19 infections that occur in people who have been fully vaccinated against the virus — are rare, but possible and expected, as the vaccines are not 100 percent effective in preventing infections. Still, vaccinated people who test positive will likely be asymptomatic or experience a far milder illness than if they were not vaccinated. The majority of deaths from COVID-19 — around 98 to 99 percent —are in unvaccinated people.
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