In the news, it seems like celebrities are having a much easier time than the rest of us getting testing for COVID-19. Presumably private physicians are accessing scarce test kits with greater ease than hospitals. During the start of the worldwide pandemic, celebrities took to social media to let people know the importance of staying home after they tested positive. Now, many countries are in full-lockdown while others lift stay-at-home orders following declining rates of infection. Here’s an abridged list of celebrities who’ve tested positive, and how they’re doing now.
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Tom and Rita Hanks
They were among the first celebrities to test positive. They spent 2 weeks in quarantine in Australia where Tom was filming a movie and returned to LA after they both recovered.
Idris Elba
The British actor describes himself as “humbled to be alive” after his experience with the coronavirus, now he and his wife are starting a UN fund to aid farmers who get sick.
Kristofer Hivju
The GoT actor came down with the virus while filming season two of The Witcher for Netflix. Both he and his wife experienced mild symptoms and made complete recoveries.
Andy Cohen
The Bravo host spent 12 days isolated from his family after coming down with the virus, fearful of transmitting it to his one-year-old son. Fans spotted him on the streets of New York (with stylish facemask) in the first week of April, fully recovered.
Daniel Dae Kim
The Hawaii Five-0 actor posted about his recovery from the virus in late March before his symptoms resurged just days later. Setbacks on the road to recovery are typical for those with the virus.
Olga Kurylenko
The Ukrainian actor best known as the Bond girl from Quantum of Solace came down with the virus in early March, experiencing two weeks of severe symptoms.
Rachel Matthews
The star of Disney’s Frozen 2 posted on Instagram about her self-quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19, saying the test was “INSANELY hard to come by.”
P!nk
“It was terrifying at one point,” the pop star told Ellen on her show, revealing that both she and her three-year-old son had symptoms of COVD-19. They’re both recovered after testing positive.
Colton Underwood
Famous for jumping a fence and going on the run during his season of The Bachelor, Underwood spent weeks self-isolating in a room of his girlfriend’s parents’ house recovering from coronavirus.
Debi Mazar
The young actress made a complete recovery from the coronavirus in late March and described the brutal symptoms she experienced including high-fever, headaches, and a loss of taste and smell which persisted through her recovery.
Sturgill Simpson
Despite traveling in Europe in late January and experiencing symptoms for a month, ER doctors denied Simpson a coronavirus test for not meeting criteria. He tested positive a month after his symptoms subsided after visiting a free drive-through testing site in Alabama.
