Amber Stevens West has recently revealed that she and her daughter, Ava, tested positive for COVID-19, sharing her experience with the disease and vaccine, according to PEOPLE.
On Thursday, the 35-year-old actress revealed in a March of Dimes “Healthy Moms, Strong Babies” webinar that both were tested positive for COVID-19 but she experienced only a mild case because she was fully vaccinated and also received a booster.
West urged, “The booster is something we all should be getting because the efficacy of the first shot we got is now diminished and so we want to continue to protect ourselves.”
She said she also wanted to protect her newborn. She said she will be getting “antibodies that aren’t as strong as when I got the shot, but still there’s something that she will be consuming through my breast milk.”
West said she and her husband, Andrew West, both have the booster, which also helps protect Ava, who is not yet eligible for a vaccine.
The Run the World actress said, “I’m just really grateful that it all exists because we got COVID last week because we were vaccinated. We felt more comfortable kind of going out into the world and doing things, so I don’t know for sure if this is where we got it, but we did go to Disneyland.”
West went on to say she was at the amusement park with “the most people we had been around in a long time and it was quite crowded, so it’s likely that that’s where we picked it up.”
Her husband had “zero symptoms,” but West said she felt “a little tired.” She was unsure if she was sick but attributed her symptoms to a cold that had been going around.
West said, “We’re perfectly healthy. We’re not going to the hospital. We’re fine, we’re moving through this. And I think that’s the whole point.”
“That’s why everyone needs to get their shots and their boosters because this virus is still out there and it’s still affecting all of us in our lives, but if we all get this vaccine and we stop filling up hospital beds, and we can be healthy, then we can move back into our normal lives again,” she added.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that pregnant women can receive the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as boosters.
The CDC said, “Evidence about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy has been growing. These data suggest that the benefits of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine outweigh any known or potential risks of vaccination during pregnancy. There is currently no evidence that any vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, cause fertility problems in women or men.”
