MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle recovering from COVID-19

MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle announced on Monday she has tested positive for the coronavirus and pleaded with viewers to take the pandemic “seriously.”

“I have spent the better part of the last two weeks in bed, isolating and taking all the precautions needed to protect myself, my family and my community,” Ruhle said while broadcasting from home. 

The anchor and financial news analyst said her husband and children have also tested positive. 

“We still don’t know how we got it,” she said. “But we are getting better and we are very, very lucky.” 

Ruhle, who typically anchors an hour of the network’s daytime news coverage from MSNBC’s headquarters in New York, said she will continue to broadcast from home “until I know for sure that I am no longer contagious and positive.” 

She also mentioned the rising number of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the United States, saying she has gained a new appreciation for how easy it is to contract the virus and how unsettling having it in your system can be. 

“I’ll tell you there is so much more that I now know after having COVID myself,” Ruhle said. “Most importantly, we don’t have a vaccine today. We have a virus that is ravaging our country and we need to do a whole lot more to stop it.” 

Ruhle added that “as a person who is sick and scared, I am begging you: Please take this seriously. It is not over.”