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On Wednesday, “The View” panel went down to just three after Whoopi Goldberg had to leave after she was exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19.

Co-host Joy Behar broke the news during the program and was first reported by People.

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Behar: ‘If you’re near someone who has been exposed and is positive, you can’t come here. That’s the way we operate here’

Behar said, “Whoopi wanted me to tell everyone because she feels fine and healthy but because she was in close contact with someone who tested positive, she won’t be here today and tomorrow.”

“If you’re near someone who has been exposed and is positive, you can’t come here,” Behar added. “That’s the way we operate here. She also wanted me to share that she tested negative earlier today and she had her booster. You will see her on Friday because we taped a show earlier this week.”

Goldberg said in March that she had taken that “most important step” that anyone could take: She got her first COVID-19 vaccination shot.

“And I am happy to tell you that last night, I finally got my first shot at New York’s 24-hour vaccination site at the Javits Center,” tGoldberg said at the time.

“Let me tell you, I was sweating,” Goldberg added. “When you look at it on the news, the needle looks this big.”

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Goldberg In March: ‘This is no joke. People are still dying’

“It turns out, the needle is this big and I didn’t feel it,” she added. “That was important. And I said to them, ‘How do we tell people that it’s not this gigantic thing?’ We have to get folks in here to make that decision and also, to do it for other folks.”

“This is no joke,” Goldberg said in March. “People are still dying.”

Goldberg would say a month later that she received her second shot.