Whoopi Goldberg says she plans to return full-time to The View on Monday after being sidelined with COVID

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"It was a shock, because I'm triple vaxxed, I haven't been anywhere, I haven't done anything," Goldberg said of testing positive Wednesday during a brief remote appearance on today's episode of the ABC daytime talk show. "It's one of those things where you think, I've done everything I was supposed to do... Yeah, it doesn't stop omicron...I don't know how much more proof people need to see that the vaccination -- while it does not necessarily stop it from happening again -- it is not happening at the same rate that it was."