CNN’s Chris Cuomo is speaking out after receiving his coronavirus diagnoses.
“I tested positive, scary, yes as you might imagine. But better me than you,” Cuomo said during his show Tuesday evening, adding, “My concern is what I may have put on my family. Just like you would. That is hurting me way more than anything the virus can do.”
Cuomo announced his diagnosis in a tweet on Tuesday, as IJR previously reported.
Cuomo called on Americans to do everything they can to avoid contracting the virus.
Watch his comments below:
“Together as ever as one, that is our remedy. What do you say? Let’s get after it,” Cuomo said.
The political commentator went on to discuss the concerns and fears he has in receiving the diagnosis.
“I am not able to be there for my family right now in the way that I want to be,” Cuomo said. “I still have to see if I got any of them sick, and you can understand how sickening that is to me as a husband and a father.”
He recognized the bigger picture of the coronavirus crisis and the number of Americans being affected by it. Cuomo acknowledged the rate of testing and how testing is “just starting to catch up.”
He continued on to explain it is not if or when, it is happening.
“We are in it, this is a fight. It’s going to get worse. We’re going to suffer,” Cuomo said. “You have to accept that not with fear, but with almost a fanatical sense of passion to fight.”
He encouraged Americans to remember that they are not immune to this. Additionally, the CNN host also recognized the hit the economy is taking.
Cuomo reiterated Americans should move forward despite the fear they are experiencing.
“So let’s move past this idea of fear to fact,” Cuomo said, adding, “What do they need us to do? What is working? What do we have questions about? What remains?”
The United States is the country with the most coronavirus cases. As of Wednesday morning, there were more than 189,000 cases in the U.S.