Meghan McCain is sharing details about her battle with COVID-19. “My husband and I got very sick — more sick than the ‘mild Omicron’ headlines and Twitter streams suggested,” she wrote in a January 2021 opinion piece for the Daily Mail. “I am still now, a few weeks out from testing positive, waking up feeling the aftereffects of a cold in my throat, getting fatigued easily, and unable to taste food or smell anything normally. I have been lighting candles all over the house waiting for this to change.”
While she admits things could have been a lot worse — and luckily her young daughter did not test positive — McCain is surprised that she was so sick. “Covid was much rougher than I anticipated given that we are fully-vaccinated,” she wrote. “What I experienced wasn’t mild, it wasn’t easy, and I am still fearful of the unknown long-term side effects that I may experience.”
The experience also has made McCain doubt if the country is going to be able to recover from the pandemic. “I am a pretty optimistic person by nature and this has been hard for me to shake both physically and emotionally,” she explained. “I can’t fathom how people without support, resources and international columns to tell their story feel. No wonder there is a pandemic of depression, suicides and malaise. Everything keeps getting worse.”
