Well-known doctor Drew Pinsky tested positive for COVID-19. Pinsky, known as “Dr. Drew, ‘is’ under surveillance’ according to a message shared on his Instagram account.
‘Drew feels better and wants to [hopefully] get well soon, ”reads the report.
Pinsky, who has a medical doctor in internal medicine and a private practice in Southern California in addition to his media profession, shared a health update Tuesday night in which he said his followers COVID-19 is ‘no fun’.
“I do not recommend it, but I’m kind of through the viral phase, that’s when the virus propagates,” Pinsky said in a video, adding that he took many “good medications” to treat the virus. to fall. . He said he was on ‘day five or six’. Pinsky said he was now “happy to get COVID-19 and” not sooner “in the pandemic.
Pinksy said his positive test is a kind of relief.
“Because I had this terrible acute fever and tested negative, and if I did not have COVID, I had acute lymphocytic leukemia, which I did not want, because it is the only thing that would do what happens to me , “he revealed. ‘So COVID will explain the whole thing nicely, and we now have some good treatments for COVID. And I look forward to the immunity on the other side of this. ”
The immune response, including the duration of immunity, to COVID-19 is not yet understood, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC notes that there is not enough information yet to say whether anyone will definitely be immune and can be protected from re-infection if they have antibodies against the virus.
Pinsky’s diagnosis comes months after he apologized for reducing the severity of the virus and called the pandemic ‘purple induced panic’.
‘My early remarks about equating coronavirus with flu were wrong. They were wrong. I was part of a choir that said that. And we were wrong. And for that I want to apologize, “he said in April. “I wish I had done it right, but I did it wrong.”
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