Savannah Guthrie needs follow-up eye surgeries post-coronavirus after retina tear

Savannah Guthrie is going to need follow up surgeries after suffering an eye injury last year, but she won't be able to get them until the coronavirus pandemic subsides.

"My eyesight is not great," Guthrie told People in an interview published Tuesday. "I have to have a couple of follow-up surgeries, which is unfortunate but not unexpected."

The "Today" show host said her procedures have been postponed because many hospitals are cancelling and pushing back non-urgent surgeries across the country to preserve supplies for coronavirus patients.

The 48-year-old mom had surgery in December to repair a torn retina after her 3-year-old son, Charley, accidentally threw a toy train at her eye in November and caused her to lose her vision in her right eye.

Guthrie said that although the initial surgery restored her vision, it's not where it used to be and she thinks "it’s getting worse."

"Eventually I’m hopeful that when everything turns to normal, I’ll be able to schedule those surgeries and I’m hopeful there’ll be a big improvement,” Guthrie said. “I don’t think my eye will ever be the way it once was, but I think it will be much improved."

The journalist added that she was grateful to have had the surgery when she did.

"It saved my eye," she told the outlet. "If I hadn’t been able to have that surgery, I think I would have probably lost my vision in that eye. So yes, I’m very, very grateful and this is just one those things. It’s an inconvenience. It’s a story that keeps going on."

Guthrie remains hopeful that she'll be able to have the rest of her surgeries by summer.

"It’ll be okay,” she said. “Hopefully by this summer I’ll be able to take care of it and start getting back to a better place."

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Guthrie recently spent two weeks working from home with a sore throat out of caution due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"I haven't been here in a while," she said, rejoining co-anchor Hoda Kotb in Studio 1A on March 31.

Guthrie announced on Instagram March 17 that she would begin anchoring the NBC News morning show from her basement. She said at the time she felt "good" but would follow advice from "NBC’s superb medical team" to err on the side of caution after an employee who works on the show tested positive for coronavirus.

Contributing: Hannah Yasharoff

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