Close call!
Country crooner Reba McEntire was all but certain she’ d come down with COVID-19 recently after displaying all the symptoms. The 66-year-old wasn’ t super excited about it, either, considering she had already been vaccinated earlier in the pandemic.
After coming down with a cold-like feeling, Reba and her partner Rex Linn both went and took COVID tests, just to be sure. And they were shocked when the tests came back positive — making the particular reveal public on TikTok !
Thankfully, a nurse looking deeper into the situation tested Reba’ s antibodies specifically, and discovered that the vaccine’ s presence had triggered a false positive! There’ s not a great end to the story here, considering Reba was still sick — with a respiratory synctial virus (RSV), instead of coronavirus — but at least it’ h proof her vaccine is working!
The former TV sitcom star explained the whole situation while appearing on Talk Show Live with host Nancy O’ Dell . Reba said:
“ I did think that I had COVID but when I got tested my antibodies — it came up that will I had not had COVID. I had my antibodies from my vaccine. So I experienced all the symptoms, so I was kinda probably — I did get tested, you know the test that I had and it said that I had it yet then the nurse that arrived and tested me for my antibodies said that I probably had the RSV virus. ”
Whew!
Earlier this year, back when she thought she got COVID for a time before being re-diagnosed, the multi-talented redhead spoke openly about what the tough time it’ s been for all of society in a poignant TikTok video:
“ I just want to say one thing: this has been a hard year plus it’ s getting rougher again. You guys, please stay safe. Wear your mask. Do what you have to do. Stay home. It’ s not fun in order to get this. I did get it. Rex and I got it and it’ s not fun. You don’ t feel good. We were both vaccinated in addition to we still got it, so stay safe, stay home, and even be protected the best you can. ”
Clearly, all that still holds true today — especially the part about staying safe, staying home, and wearing a mask!
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And while Reba and her partner can breathe a bit easier now knowing they did not get COVID-19, looking forward it’ s nevertheless a s**t show out there when it comes to making big decisions on concert tours, meet-and-greets, and everything else of which usually makes this country music superstar’ s world go ’ round.
Reba spilled to O’ Dell:
“ I have no idea what plans for next year are. You know, the COVID thing has really hit hard and spikes are going everywhere right now … and it’ s all over the country — this new variant. We have plans right now to go back on tour in January, February and March. We have plans with being with Brooks & Dunn at Caesars Palace in December — the first two weeks, almost three weeks of Dec — but we don’ to know if that’ s going to go. We’ re just gonna move forward, keep praying that everybody stays safe together with healthy, and wear your mask and just be safe. ”
Wow.
Clearly, times remain tough for everybody — with these COVID-19 variants out there wreaking havoc on different places, sometimes it seems like there’ s no great decision to be made on the future, and we’ ll all be stuck indoors with regard to another year.
All we can do is follow Reba’ s lead: be secure, get vaccinated, and keep wearing our masks!
Glad she’ s feeling better!!!
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