Actress Kristy Swanson hospitalized with COVID-19

Actress Kristy Swanson, who's criticized apical U.S. wellness officials and expressed skepticism astir COVID-19 vaccines, tweeted connected Sunday that she's been hospitalized with a terrible COVID-19 infection.

Swanson, who's champion known for playing the titular quality successful the 1992 movie "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," tweeted Sunday that she was taken by ambulance to Virtua Memorial Hospital successful Mount Holly, New Jersey. She besides noted that she's connected oxygen and that she's "OK."

Swanson's hospitalization comes astir a period aft she compared COVID-19 to the flu successful a tweet and expressed skepticism astir vaccine mandates.

She's besides regularly tweeted disapproval of Dr. Anthony Fauci, a White House aesculapian advisor and the caput of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases. In 1 tweet past November, she compared Fauci to Nurse Ratched from the caller "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

Despite her skepticism of communal nationalist wellness measures, she clarified successful a tweet connected Sunday that she is not an anti-vaxer. It's unclear if she had gotten a changeable anterior to her hospitalization.

The New York Times reports that Swanson is simply a vocal protagonist of erstwhile President Donald Trump and met him astatine the White House past February.