Whoopi Goldberg absent from The View since Feb 5 due to pneumonia.

“I am OK. I’m not dead,” Goldberg said in a taped segment that rolled at the top of Friday’s episode. “Yes, I came very, very close to leaving the Earth. Good news, I didn’t. Thank you for all of your good wishes.”

https://www.thewrap.com/whoopi-goldberg-septic-almost-died-pneumonia/