Palin announces she's tested positive for COVID-19

WASILLA — Former Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin announced to People Magazine that she had tested positive for COVID-19.

Palin served on the Wasilla City Council before she was elected and served as Wasilla Mayor from 1996 to 2002. Palin was elected governor of Alaska in 2006 and tapped as the GOP nominee for Vice President in the 2008 election with Presidential nominee John McCain.

“I strongly encourage everyone to use common sense to avoid spreading this and every other virus out there,” Palin told People. “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 also said that members of her family have also contracted COVID-19, but did not specify which family members had tested positive or when any of the results were reported to the Palin family.

The Mat-Su has had 9,941 total cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic and averaged 40.9 cases per day over the last two weeks, the highest in Alaska. Also at the highest rate in Alaska, the Mat-Su has had 614 positive cases over the last two weeks. Last March as the COVID-19 pandemic was just beginning for most residents in the United States, Palin was featured as one of the contestants on “The Masked Singer.”

“History will show we Masked Singer visitors were masked before being masked was cool,” said Palin.