Tiffany Haddish revealed that she contracted COVID-19 in an interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci. The Girls Trip actress opened up about her experience with the disease that continues to claim millions of lives across the world during the interview.
A video, entitled Tiffany Haddish interviews Dr. Fauci about COVID-19 was uploaded to Haddish's YouTube channel on Aug. 31, wherein the actress revealed that she contracted coronavirus about three months ago. Haddish said she tested positive for the virus after two people she had met with contracted it.
Haddish said she was working on a movie, and someone working with her ended up contracting the virus, although she wasn't in direct contact with them. She said the filmmakers decided to send them all home after stopping the movie.
The filmmakers advised Haddish to get tested. She received the results two days later, suggesting that she tested negative for coronavirus. She decided to get tested for the virus again when someone she knew was around the week before also contracted coronavirus.
Despite not having any symptoms, the second test result showed that Haddish had contracted the virus. She got tested for antibodies after she started feeling better and was informed that she had them. She went for another test, that revealed the antibodies had disappeared, Variety reported.
“I’ve been tested 12 times now," the 40-year-old actress reveals in the video. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Fauci tells Haddish that she did the right thing by getting tested several times and quarantining in her home after finding out that she was sick.
Indicating that it is people's societal responsibility to ensure that do not help to spread the outbreak, Fauci urged them to be a part of the solution, not the problem. In the interview, Haddish and Fauci spoke about the difference in the virus infections within minority communities, and how it is more likely to affect the Black and Latinx people.
Fauci indicated it is dangerous to generalize, but suggested they have a greater chance of getting infected. He went to explain that people in the minority communities are usually out on the front lines, doing the manual labor jobs that make it compulsory for them to interact with people.
Talking about the African American and Latinx population, he said they are more likely to have underlying conditions, meaning, when they get infected, they would have a serious outcome. Fauci insisted that social distancing is still the best way to ensure you do not end up contracting the virus, and even commented on its political implications.
He said it is unfortunate that the divisiveness in the society is making it a political thing. He slammed people who suggest doing public health things is against opening the country, adding the health guidelines should be used as a pathway to reopening the country safely, instead.