Ana Navarro Shares Her COVID-19 Story on The View, Blasts Trump's 'Faux Machismo'

Ana Navarro shared her personal experience with her husband's diagnosis of COVID-19 on The View today, and got emotional at the thought of how she was more fortunate than hundreds of thousands of others who have suffered with this disease..

She revealed he got the coronavirus from "sombody that works in my house who had got it from a nephew" who had infected 16 people total, and that he was in the hospital for five days fighting pneumonia as well, but he survived it. "He's home now, he's feeling great, he's out of the woods. I am feeling so blessed, and I can't tell you how much, this weekend, I have thought of all the people who dropped their loved one off at an ER, never to see them again. Not to be able to hold their hand, not to be able to be with them, and they are never getting to come home again. There's almost 220,000 American families who are dealing with that right now, as I speak. I'm one of the lucky ones, but this is hard. It's scary."

"I don't understand, for the life of me, how the reaction of Donald Trump after getting COVID is to make light of it and to be so cavalier about it and to throw away the mask and pretend macho men can beat it," she said. "The human reaction, the human logic would be to be more careful, not less, after experiencing it. To be more empathetic, not less, after experiencing. To rely more on the scientists and the doctors who saved your life and what the CDC guidelines are, not less."

She said it gave her even more reason to vote for Joe Biden. "I want a president who cares about the American people and keeping us safe much more than trying to portray some faux machismo." 

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