'View' Co-Hosts Test Positive for the Coronavirus Before Harris's Visit

Politics|Two hosts of ‘The View’ trial affirmative for the microorganism minutes up of an interrogation with the vice president.

• Sept. 24, 2021, 11:54 a.m. ET

Two co-hosts of The View, Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin, were abruptly pulled from the acceptable connected unrecorded tv connected Friday greeting aft investigating affirmative for the coronavirus, minutes up of a unrecorded in-studio interrogation with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Joy Behar, different co-host of the show, announced that they had contracted breakthrough cases. None of the hosts were wearing masks connected set, but members of the unrecorded workplace assemblage were each masked.

“Ana and Sunny, astatine the past minute, we realized they tested affirmative for Covid,” Ms. Behar said. She said Ms. Harris, who was successful the gathering preparing to travel onstage, was going to look remotely connected the programme from different room.

After the affirmative cases were announced, Ms. Behar and different co-host, Sara Haines, were the lone hosts near connected acceptable (Whoopi Goldberg, different host, was disconnected connected Friday). They took questions from the assemblage to capable the programme portion the Secret Service tried to find a mode for Ms. Harris to safely enactment successful the planned interview.

The announcement came minutes aft the hosts had been discussing the value of getting vaccinated and aft they had promoted Ms. Harris’ quality arsenic her archetypal “in-studio” interrogation since taking office.

Ms. Harris’ quality connected “The View” had agelong been planned and was 1 of lone a fistful of tv interviews she has participated successful since taking office. The timing was not perfect for a vice president whose portfolio includes migration issues, but who had hoped to usage the accidental to speech astir issues specified arsenic broadband entree and women successful the enactment force.

It came arsenic the administration’s handling of Haitian migrants astatine the borderline prompted outrage among Democrats and called into question President Biden’s determination to swiftly deport thousands who had been arriving en masse astatine a tiny Texas borderline town.