Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate and former Alaska governor, has tested positive for coronaviruses, as she was due to go to trial against The New York Times, which she accused of defamation.
Palin's positive test was announced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan, who is presiding over the case. Rakoff said she is not vaccine-related, referring to Palin.
Rakoff said Palin's positive test came from an at-home test whose reliability was lower than the tests administered at the courthouse and required for the trial.
Palin will be tested on Monday morning, with the results determining whether the trial will proceed the same day or will be delayed.
Palin, 57, has accused the Times and its former editorial page editor James Bennet of damaging her reputation in a June 14, 2017 editorial linking her to a mass shooting in Arizona in 2011 that killed six people and wounded U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords.