Yet another celebrity joins the list of people in the entertainment industry that has tested positive for COVID-19. The latest to reveal their positive diagnosis is the former The Big Bang Theory star, Jim Parsons.
Fox News reports that Parson and his husband had caught the coronavirus in March but were unaware of it until they began to lose their sense of taste and smell, one of the more prominent symptoms of COVID-19.
The 47-year-old Parsons made the revelation on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, saying that the symptoms that he and his 43-year-old husband Todd Spiewak experienced were beyond description.
Deadline also quotes Parsons as saying that he could have never imagined what it would be like to not smell or taste anything. He also bemoaned the fact that the loss of those senses could not have come at a worse time, since he and his husband started eating more while quarantined.
Aside from eating, Parsons also shared that he had decided to bleach his hair during quarantine as a way to pass the time. He described the process as painful, saying that it burned his scalp but joked that “beauty is pain.”
Both Parsons and Spiewak have since then recovered from the coronavirus and are still quarantining together.
Parsons and Spiewak are just the latest to come out with a positive coronavirus diagnosis. Just last week, E! host and red carpet staple Guiliana Rancic had to give up hosting the annual E! red carpet coverage after testing positive for the virus.
Rancic’s husband Bill and son Duke also tested positive for COVID-19, as did Vivica A. Fox, who was set to co-host the red carpet show alongside Guiliana Rancic.
David and Victoria Beckham were also rumored to have caught the coronavirus while attending events in Los Angeles for David’s new football team, Inter Miami.
Other celebrities that have talked about testing positive for the coronavirus include Bryan Cranston, Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks, Antonio Banderas, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Hanks, Wilson, and Cranston have contributed to research for a COVID-19 vaccine by donating their platelets.
Cases of coronavirus infections continue to rise in the United States. According to the Sept. 30 update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are now 7,168,077 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States. Deaths caused by COVID-19 are now at 205,372 people.
Around the world, the Sept. 30 update from the World Health Organization puts the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at 33,722,075 people. Globally, there are now 1,009,270 people that have died from COVID-19.