Dr. Drew Reveals COVID-19 Diagnosis Months After Apologizing For Downplaying Coronavirus
Celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky recently took to Instagram to share that he has tested positive for COVID-19. According to his post, Pinsky, known as “Dr. Drew,” is “under surveillance” as he continues to fight the virus.
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Dr. Drew’s wife, Susan Pinsky, provided the update on his behalf confirming he contracted the virus. She along with her children tested negative. In the post, Susan can be seen wearing a mask while holding bottles of Hydralyte “for COVID-19.” The post mentioned Dr. Drew’s fever had decreased and thanked the doctors involved for their “superior care and advice.”
Dr. Drew followed up on his conditions in an additional Instagram post thanking those who checked in on him: “COVID’s no fun. I don’t recommend it,” Dr. Drew said. “I’m sort of through the viral phase, which is when the virus is reproducing and took a lot of good medications to attack [the virus] early… Man, am I glad to get it now and not earlier in the course. I’m waiting for an antibody infusion but if this thing resolves before I get the infusion, so much the better…”
Pinsky’s diagnosis comes months after he apologized for downplaying the severity of the virus. He once called the pandemic “press induced panic.”
“My early comments about equating coronavirus with influenza were wrong. They were incorrect. I was part of a chorus that was saying that. And we were wrong. And I want to apologize for that,” he said in April. “I wish I had gotten it right, but I got it wrong.”
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