Rachel Maddow resumed hosting duties this evening on MSNBC albeit from her home in Western Massachusetts where she is still quarantining after a close contact was diagnosed with COVID-19. Earlier this month, I wrote, "I hope her quarantine is uneventful and that she returns to MSNBC's airwaves posthaste."
As it turns out her quarantine has been anything but uneventful. The close contact in question is Maddow's long time partner Susan Mikula who was diagnosed with COVID-19 and nearly died of it. Fortunately, Mikula is now come back from the brink of death and is recovering. You can watch Maddow's account of this ordeal here.
The sad truth is that Maddow's story is one among that of millions of American families. She is fortunate to have a platform to share her story with millions of Americans and warn us that this is not something we want to experience for ourselves and that we should do everything we can not to get COVID-19. In Maddow's case her story will have a happy ending though not without its challenges along the way. For the families of more than 250,000 Americans there are no happy endings.
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