Sarah Palin tests positive for COVID-19 and urges people to wear masks in public

Anchorage, Alaska — Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin says she tested positive for COVID-19 and is urging people to take steps to guard against the coronavirus, such as wearing masks in public.

"Through it all, I view wearing that cumbersome mask indoors in a crowd as not only allowing the newfound luxury of being incognito, but trust it's better than doing nothing to slow the spread," Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, told People magazine. "And history will show we 'Masked Singer' visitors were masked before being masked was cool," she said in her statement, referring to the TV show on which she once appeared.