FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — Virginia Moore is back as the American Sign Language interpreter at Governor Andy Beshear's COVID-19 news conferences.
Governor Beshear begins his COVID-19 briefing today by welcoming back ASL interpreter Virginia Moore @LEX18News pic.twitter.com/m9YVMHY5wv
— Katherine Collins (@KCollinsWLEX) November 30, 2020
The ASL translator took a break after announcing she was diagnosed with stage one uterine cancer last month.
"Thanks to my doctor, Sara Todd and Daniel Metzinger with the Brown Cancer Center in Louisville, Kentucky, they took fabulous care of me," said Moore last month. "They were able to get all of the cancer out."
Moore is known for standing alongside Governor Beshear, at a safe distance, as the governor provides COVID-19 updates for Kentuckians. As a certified sign language interpreter, she relays critical information to Kentuckians who are deaf or hard of hearing.
The ASL translator says women should not wait to get a mammogram or pap smear.
"If I had waited just a little bit longer, I would definitely be in treatment because it was one of the largest tumors they saw and it was invasive but just shy of having to have treatment," Moore said.
Cancer is listed by the CDC as an underlying health condition that puts people at an increased risk for severe illness from the virus that causes COVID-19.
