Dr. "It's just like the flu" Drew Pinsky has Covid

[tenderfoot]

Dr. Drew Pinsky has tested positive for COVID-19.

The radio show host's official Instagram account shared the news on Tuesday alongside a photo of him in bed. (His wife, Susan Pinsky, apparently tested negative for coronavirus and wears a mask in the selfie.)



The positive test result comes one day after documenting his coronavirus test on social media. In the video, a coughing Pinksy says, "This better be COVID or I'm gonna be pissed," then caused further controversy when he shared the post saying he was "wishing for COVID."

"After three days of fever and the Zelenko protocol plus steroids, feeling better and getting another test for flu and Covid! Goodtimes," he tweeted. "Wishing for Covid since this virus is not fun. Stay well, wear a mask!"

When followers questioned why he would wish for COVID-19, he replied, "Hoping for Covid so I achieve some degree of immunity I could go back out and treat patients without risk of becoming sick and taking another hospital bed away from patients needing care."

In another response, Pinsky added, "If your assumption is that what I have been suffering through is not brutal you are very much mistaken."

https://www.etonline.com/dr-drew-pinsky-tests-positive-for-covid-19-158412

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Tell us how you feel when you get a ventilator, Doc!

Guess when you get it, it's real.

[BrightKnight]

4. It gets real when you can't breath and your O2 sat is low

with high flow Oxygen. It is real when you are alone in the Covid ward and the doctor gives you the worst case end of life ventilator talk. Or when you are trying to comfort someone that can’t breath, is getting worse and just had that conversation. It is real when you have to wait 8 hours in ER for them to find a hospital bed to transport you to.

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. Yup....and there 330K American lives that can attest to this. nt

[BainsBane]

2. WTF is wrong with him?

And as far as I know, it's still unknown whether having COVID gives one immunity.

[BigmanPigman]

5. He, of all people, should know this.

I wonder what the My Pillow guy would say if he got Covid. Wasn't he pushing some snake oil remedy?

[Progressive Law]

3. Dr. Drew backstabbed The PoorMan

I'll never forgive him for that.

[soothsayer]

7. Stay positive, doc!

[UTUSN]

8. A-hole