Joining worried parents across the country, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy announced Tuesday on Twitter that his 4-year-old daughter had tested positive for COVID-19.
“Staring at my daughter’s positive test, I asked myself the same questions many parents have asked: Will my child be OK? Could I have done more to protect her? Was this my fault? In these moments, it doesn’t matter if you’re a doctor or Surgeon General,” Murthy wrote. “We are parents first.”
Infection in otherwise healthy children is normally less severe than in adults, but Murthy told followers that his daughter is still experiencing a fever and sore throat and “isn’t her usual bubbly self.”
