Why is Whoopi Goldberg lacking from The View?

Whoopi Goldberg is lacking from The View panel after testing optimistic for Covid-19 for the second time this 12 months.

Co-host Pleasure Behar mentioned throughout the programme on Tuesday that “sadly, Whoopi is out with COVID.”

“So relaxation up and get again right here miss, if you really feel higher,” she mentioned as she took the seat often occupied by Ms Goldberg.

Fellow co-host Ana Navarro mentioned that Covid-19 is “coming again,” with Ms Behar agreeing: “It’s coming again. One other good friend of mine acquired it, too. I imply, we’ve to watch out once more. Rattling”.

She turned to the viewers and mentioned, “clap should you had your third booster”.

Viewers observed that each Ms Behar and Ms Holdberg weren’t current for the present on Monday, shocking followers because the hosts often take off on days when the opposite is on the programme.

When Ms Goldberg is out, Ms Behar often takes the moderator’s seat.

When each of the hosts had been out of motion, followers had been shocked that Sara Haines was put accountable for the programme as a substitute of Sunny Hostin, in accordance with Decider.

Ms Goldberg turned 67 on Sunday 13 November and final appeared on the present on Thursday 10 November, when her birthday was celebrated early.

It’s the second time that Ms Goldberg has examined optimistic for Covid-19 this 12 months after first catching it in January.

Earlier this 12 months, she appeared on The View from house and instructed her fellow panellists that it was a “shock” to check optimistic for Covid-19 as she had acquired three vaccine photographs and she or he hadn’t “been anyplace” and hadn’t “completed something”.

“It’s a kind of issues the place you suppose, I’ve completed the whole lot I used to be alleged to do … Yeah, it doesn’t cease Omicron,” she mentioned on the time of the fast-spreading Covid-variant, in accordance with ABC Information.

A spokesperson for the programme instructed EWthat Ms Goldberg was feeling unwell earlier than the present on Monday, didn’t seem on the programme, and examined optimistic later within the afternoon.

Ms Navarro and former Republican operative Alyssa Farah Griffin appeared alongside Ms Haines and Ms Hoston on the present on Monday.

On Thursday’s (17 November) programme, Goldberg as soon as once more remained absent, with Ms Behar reiterating that the Oscar winner was nonetheless sick with Covid.

Co-host Sunny Hostin was additionally lacking, though Ms Behar didn’t clarify why.