Fully Vaccinated Bill Maher TESTS POSITIVE For COVID

It was recently announced in a tweet from the official “Real Time with Bill Maher” that the 65-year-old host has tested positive for the coronavirus even though he has been fully vaccinated.

The comedian’s diagnosis resulted in the taping of Friday’s May 14 show being canceled.

“Bill tested positive during weekly staff PCR testing for COVID,” read the announcement. “He is fully vaccinated and as a result is asymptomatic and feels fine.”

The statement added that the show’s production has “taken every precaution following CDC guidelines.”

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— Real Time with Bill Maher (@RealTimers) May 13, 2021

“No other staff or crew members have tested positive at this time,” the statement assured. “The show will be rescheduled at a later date.”

As he is known to be, Maher has been very outspoken about his feelings toward the coronavirus pandemic, even going as far as slamming blue states for keeping schools closed.

In his closing monologue in April, Maher took aim at the media’s “panic porn” during the pandemic, citing a Dartmouth study showing that “nearly 90 percent” of U.S. national media coverage was negative in comparison to other countries even as conditions were getting better.

“[Democrats] also have a greatly exaggerated view of the danger of COVID to and the mortality rate among children, all of which explains why today the states with the highest share of schools that are still closed are all blue states,” Maher lamented. “So if the right-wing media bubble has to own things like climate change denial, shouldn’t liberal media have to answer for ‘How did your audience wind up believing such bunch of crap about COVID?'”

Maher also mentioned a Gallup survey that showed a majority of Democrats incorrectly overestimate the chances of being hospitalized from COVID, with 41% believing it’s at least 50% while only 10% of Democrats correctly said that the probability is only 1-to-5% while 26% of Republicans agreed, adding that Democrats were “wildly off on this key question.”

“When all of our sources for medical information have an agenda to spin us, yeah, you wind up with a badly misinformed population, including on the left,” Maher said. “Liberals often mock the Republican misinformation bubble … but what about liberals? You know, the high-information, by-the-science people?”