Kristy Swanson, Actress and Vaccine Skeptic, Is Hospitalized With Covid

U.S.|Kristy Swanson, histrion and vaccine skeptic, is hospitalized with Covid.

• Published Nov. 1, 2021Updated Nov. 2, 2021, 10:32 a.m. ET

Kristy Swanson, an histrion who is simply a vocal vaccine skeptic and professional of Dr. Anthony Fauci, has been hospitalized with virus-related pneumonia successful New Jersey, she said.

The actress, who is champion known for playing the titular quality successful the 1992 movie “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” was taken by ambulance connected Sunday to Virtua Memorial Hospital successful Mount Holly, N.J., she said connected Twitter connected Monday. She said she had pneumonia and was being treated with oxygen, humor thinners and baricitinib, an arthritis cause that the Food and Drug Administration successful July granted exigency authorization to dainty Covid.

She said connected Monday that she was “in bully spirits” but was receiving treatments “so I don’t clot.”

“I was conscionable astatine the process extremity of my Covid diagnosis erstwhile it jumped into my lungs,” she said connected Twitter.

Although it was not wide if Ms. Swanson, 51, has received a Covid vaccine, she has often criticized proponents of the vaccine. In September, she said connected Twitter, alongside an nonfiction astir Covid, that “it behaves conscionable similar the flu.”

Every twelvemonth determination is simply a caller strain of the flu and “a caller vaccine comes retired for it,” she said. “That’s precisely what this full happening is, but this clip they privation to mandate vaccines truthful they tin marque mo-money.”

On Monday afternoon, she said connected Twitter: “Fact Check: I person NEVER said I americium anti-vax.”

Ms. Swanson has been a vocal protagonist of President Donald Trump and met him successful the Oval Office successful February past year. She has directed respective captious tweets astatine Dr. Fauci, the apical U.S. infectious illness official.