Famous 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 is feeling better and is going to [hopefully] get well soon, ”said the post.
Pinsky, who has an MD in internal medicine and maintains a private practice in Southern California, in addition to his media career, shared a health update on Tuesday night telling his followers that COVID-19 “is not fun” .
“I don’t recommend it, but I’m kind of in the viral phase, which is when the virus is reproducing,” said Pinsky in a video, adding that he took a lot of “good medicine” to attack the virus. He said he is on “day five or six”. Pinsky said he is “happy to have” COVID-19 now and “not before” the pandemic.
Pinksy said his positive test was a kind of relief.
“Because I had this terrible acute febrile illness and my test was negative, and if I didn’t have COVID, I had acute lymphocytic leukemia, which I didn’t want to have because that is the only thing that would do what was happening to me,” he revealed . “Therefore, COVID would explain everything very well and we now have several good treatments for COVID. And I’m looking forward to immunity on the other side of that. “
The immune response, including the duration of immunity, COVID-19 is not yet understood, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC notes that there is still not enough information to say whether someone is definitely immune and protected from reinfection if they have antibodies to the virus.
Pinsky’s diagnosis came months after he apologized for minimizing the severity of the virus and calling the pandemic “press-induced panic.”
“My first comments about equating the coronavirus with the flu were wrong. They were incorrect. I was part of a chorus that said that. And we were wrong. And I want to apologize for that, ”he said in April. “I wish I was right, but I got it wrong.”
To latest coronavirus news and updates, go together on https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus. According to experts, people over 60 and immunocompromised continue to be at greater risk. If you have questions, consult the CDC‘sand Who is it resource guides.
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