Media professionals continue to test positive for the coronavirus, with “Good Morning America” host George Stephanopoulos as the latest addition.
As reported by CNN, the 59-year-old anchor and former Democratic adviser made the revelation during “Good Morning America.” He says his tests have come back positive but that he is basically asymptomatic and shown no symptoms associated with COVID-19.
NBC News quotes Stephanopoulos as saying that he actually feels great and has never experienced shortness of breath, coughing, chills, or a fever.
Stephanopoulos’s situation is entirely different from that of his wife, Ali Wentworth, who also revealed that she tested positive for COVID-19 on “Good Morning America.” Wentworth also shared how the paracetamol brand Tylenol, hot baths, and chicken noodle soup have helped her out as she battles the illness.
Unlike Stephanopoulos, Wentworth called the experience “pure misery” and displayed most of the expected COVID-19 symptoms such as body aches, high fever, joint pain, and exhaustion. During this period, Stephanopoulos acted as Wentworth’s caregiver, which is probably why it is not surprising that he also tested positive.
Stephanopoulos is yet another name to add to the growing list of entertainment and media industry professionals that have tested positive for the coronavirus. Aside from his wife, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull, television host Andy Cohen, and actors Idris Elba, Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju, and Placido Domingo.
There have also been a number of entertainment and media personalities who have succumbed to the disease. These include British comedians Tim Brooke-Taylor and Eddie Large, singer-songwriters John Prine and Adam Schlesinger, theater actor Mark Blum, celebrity chef Floyd Cardoz, celebrity biographer Patricia Bosworth, and actor and dialect coach Andrew Jack.
While Stephanopoulos and his wife are dealing okay with the coronavirus, there are still more and more people in the world getting infected. The Apr. 13 situation report of the World Health Organization says that there are now 1,773,084 confirmed COVID-19 cases around the world, with 76,498 of those being new cases. The coronavirus has now caused the death of 111,652 people, with 5,702 of those being new deaths.
Confirmed cases in North and South America are at 610,742 people, according to the World Health Organization. The number of dead is at 23,759 people.
In the United States specifically, there are now 554,849 people that have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Apr. 13 update provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of coronavirus fatalities is at 21,942.