{"id":290289,"date":"2020-03-31T20:55:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T02:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1136381"},"modified":"2020-03-31T20:55:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T02:55:33","slug":"chris-cuomo-shares-powerful-message-about-his-own-experience-fighting-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/chris-cuomo-shares-powerful-message-about-his-own-experience-fighting-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Cuomo Shares Powerful Message About His Own Experience Fighting Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.969708302169\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020231\/rs_634x1024-200331101704-634-cuomos-gj-3-31-20.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo\" alt=\"Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"31.893292682927\">\n<p><strong>Chris Cuomo<\/strong> is urging people to value facts over fear amid the coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, the CNN news anchor addressed his&nbsp;<em>Cuomo Prime Time<\/em> audience <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1136153\/governor-andrew-cuomo-shares-heartfelt-message-after-brother-chris-cuomo-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">while recovering&nbsp;from the novel coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;in his New York City home, where he is currently quarantined away from his wife and kids. He told people he&#8217;s speaking out because he wants everyone to understand, &#8220;We have to do&nbsp;everything we can to avoid being&nbsp;sick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to do it for ours, our&nbsp;families and for those on the&nbsp;front lines, we are saving the&nbsp;lives of people like me and many&nbsp;of you.&nbsp;Together as ever as one.&nbsp;That is our remedy,&#8221; he implored. &#8220;What do you say?&nbsp;Let&#8217;s get after it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for the illness, Cuomo doesn&#8217;t detail his symptoms or how he feels physically, but said the virus is taking an emotional toll on him because he&#8217;s &#8220;not able to be there for my&nbsp;family right now in the what I&nbsp;that I want to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the father-of-three said he has a &#8220;sickening&#8221; fear that he might&#8217;ve passed the illness onto members of his family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But as he waits to see if they show symptoms, the news anchor is more than willing to&nbsp;self-isolate in their basement. &#8220;My basement is great.&nbsp;It&#8217;s not going to be a hardship, but I can&#8217;t go hug my kids.&nbsp;I can&#8217;t be with my family. I can&#8217;t go out and get anything for them.&#8221; he shared.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>As upsetting as this is for the 49-year-old, he acknowledged there are bigger issues in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is so small compared to what so many are facing and we&#8217;re gonna all go through this together\u2026. This is a fight. It&#8217;s going to get worse. We&#8217;re going to suffer. And you have to accept that not with fear but with almost a fanatical sense of passion to fight,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because that&#8217;s the only way you ever made it through anything hard in your life and this will be no different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"49\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"38\">\n<p>He asked, &#8220;How many people do you know who&nbsp;are worried about losing a job,&nbsp;lost a job, are not sure how to&nbsp;get food on the table?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The host then injected a bit of humor by admitting this whole situation is &#8220;weird, adding, &#8220;Now, unlike me, you will not&nbsp;have the added oddity of&nbsp;watching in real time as your&nbsp;brother&nbsp;addresses the nation and&nbsp;discusses the fact that you have&nbsp;just caught the virus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Things took a serious tone when Chris referred back to a speech made by his brother, New York governor <strong>Andrew Cuomo<\/strong>, about him testing positive for COVID-19. He remarked, &#8220;Of course, it&#8217;s going to freak him out,&#8221; especially since Chris said he is &#8220;fighting something that we don&#8217;t&nbsp;really understand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen&nbsp;anything like that before where&nbsp;there&#8217;s, like, nothing you can&nbsp;do.&nbsp;The tightness in my chest is&nbsp;tough to account for.&nbsp;Is it the virus?&nbsp;Or is it the choking concern of&nbsp;my inability to do what matters&nbsp;most, which is the same thing&nbsp;for you, to care for my family?&#8221; He continued,&nbsp;&#8220;Look what I&#8217;ve done.&nbsp;Look what I am now.&nbsp;I can&#8217;t help.&nbsp;I can&#8217;t be there.&nbsp;I can&#8217;t even hold them.&nbsp;For how long?&nbsp;Weeks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For now, the anchor is going to continue to broadcast his show from his basement and hopes to give viewers updates as the situation progresses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>NBC News Special Report: Coronavirus Pandemic<\/i> Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET\/7 p.m. PT on NBC, MSNBC and NBC News NOW. For the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic and for tips on how to prevent the spread of COVID-19, please visit The Center for Disease Control and Prevention at https:\/\/www.cdc.gov.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1136381\/chris-cuomo-shares-powerful-message-about-his-own-experience-fighting-coronavirus?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images Chris Cuomo is urging people to value facts over fear amid the coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp; On Tuesday night, the CNN news anchor addressed his&nbsp;Cuomo Prime Time audience while recovering&nbsp;from the novel coronavirus&nbsp;in his New York City home, where he is currently quarantined away from his wife and kids. He told people he&#8217;s speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-25 11:38:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}