Friday’s episode of “The View” was disrupted just before Vice President Kamala Harris was scheduled to appear.
During the broadcast, co-host Sunny Hostin and guest co-host Ana Navarro were asked to leave the set of the daytime talk show just before Harris was to be interviewed.
“Shall I introduce the Vice President?” co-host Joy Behar then asked before producers told her to hold off. “Shall we dance? Let’s do a tap dance.”
The 78-year-old comedian later informed viewers of the situation.
“Since this is gonna be a major news story any minute now, what happened is that Sunny and Ana both apparently tested positive for COVID,” said Behar.
“No matter how hard we try, these things happen. They probably have a breakthrough case and they’ll be OK, I’m sure because they’re both vaccinated. Vaccinated up the wazoo, you know, a lot of vaccines.”
To fill the awkward airtime while waiting to interview Harris, Behar and co-host Sara Haines took questions from the audience.
After the remaining hosts took audience questions, Harris was eventually interviewed from backstage shortly before noon, resulting in a shortened interview because the show was about to end.
“Vaccines really make all the difference, because otherwise we would be concerned about hospitalization,” said Harris.
“The vaccine is free. It is safe and it will save your life. So, folks just need to get vaccinated.”
ABC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily News about how Hostin and Navarro’s positive tests will affect in-person filming in the coming days.
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