The following celebrities initially tested positive for Covid-19 in 2020:
Brian Allen
OnApril 16, the Los Angeles center said he'd tested positive three weeks ago."I woke upwardly three weeks ago, I couldn't smell anything I lost all sense of smell to the betoken where I had smelling salts hither, I cracked them open up, put them to my olfactory organ and nothing happened,'" he told Trick Sports. "All I could feel was texture in my mouth - literally the merely sense I had."Allen, who is 24, was selected in the third round of the 2022 typhoon.
Allen was first NFL thespian to reveal he has the virus. New Orleans Saints caput coach Sean Payton tested positive on March nineteen. Wide receiver Antonio Gandy-Aureate tested positive on March 24 before he was drafted past the Redskins in the fourth round a month after. "My symptoms thankfully were mild, but I self-quarantined for 2 weeks and followed all guidelines from health experts," he stated. "I was fully cleared on April seven. I feel 100% now."
In April, Broncos All-Pro linebacker Von Miller tested postive. He's since recovered.
Ray Benson
On March 31, the Asleep at the Wheel frontman said he'd tested positive for the coronavirus. "Well folks, the bad news I've contracted the corona virus," he posted at Facebook. "Been feeling tired for about 10 days. Went to exist tested on the 21st. No tests so went home. Went dorsum yesterday feelin the same tired out and they tested. Start call this mornin from lab sayin you lot got it!Hoping for the best, don't have the usual symptoms but experience tired, headache, no fever, no coughing.I'll be ok. Sure do miss playin music and seein everyone!Stay well, this shit's serious!! I take been lonely for the most function and wore a mask, washed hands used hand sanitizer, still got it! Do not mind to correct fly BS!Peace."
Benson, who's 69, co-founded the Western swing band Comatose at the the Wheel in 1970. They've won nine Grammy awards over the years and released the album Willie and Wheel - a collaboration with Willie Nelson - in 2009.
On April 15, Benson reported he'd recovered from the virus:"I kicked that son of a gun. I'm back in the saddle again."
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Jackson Browne
On March 24, the Stone & Roll Hall of Famer said he'd tested positve for the coronavirus. Browne, who is 71, has been quarantined since he returned to California from New York after performing at the Dear Rocks NYC fundraiser on May 11 at the Beacon Theater."As soon as I had a small cough and a temperature, I tested [for the virus]," he told Rolling Rock. The result was positive. "My symptoms are really pretty mild, so I don't require any kind of medication and certainly not hospitalization or anything like that.And then many people that have it aren't going to be tested. They don't take symptoms, but they might accept information technology and might be able to pass it on. Younger readers need to accept part in the global response to end the spread. That means non going anywhere, not getting into contact with anybody, not seeing anybody."
Dave and Alexis Bryan
On March 21, the Bon Jovi keyboard player said he and his wife Alexis had tested positive."The first symptoms were flu-like, with a low level fever around 100 with torso aches and headaches," Bryan toldVariety. "We are both quarantined, but it just shows that some people tin accept information technology with no symptoms, and some people tin have it like me, and in that location's others who are really sick and demand to become to the hospital.I'thousand thankful that (Alexis) is non as sick equally I am."
Bryan co-founded Bon Jovi with Jon Bon Jovi in 1983. He co-wrote the off-Broadway musical Memphis in 2002.
Larry Campbell with his wife Teresa Williams
Larry Campbell
On March 24, the guitarist's married woman Teresa Williams said her husband had tested positive. "Everybody take good care and all the precautions the CDC is recommending," she said in a Facebook video. "This is no picnic. He's sicker than he'due south ever been in his life. You don't want to become information technology." Williams and Campbell are currently in unlike locations (she's in New York City and he'south in the Woodstock area). Campbell, who is 65, is known for his work with Bob Dylan, Levon Helm and his wife in their own band.
Campbell says he recovered by the terminate of April.
Andy Cohen
On March 20, the Bravo talk-show said he'd tested positive."After a few days of self-quarantine, and not feeling not bad, I have tested positive for coronavirus," Cohen posted at Instagram. "As much as I felt like I could push through any I was feeling to exercise #WWHL from habitation, we're putting a pin in that for now then I can focus on getting ameliorate. I desire to give thanks all the medical professionals who are working tirelessly for all of us, and urge everybody to stay home and take care of themselves." He hosts Watch What Happens Live on Bravo and Andy Cohen Live on SiriusXM.
On March xxx, Cohen went back to work at Sirius. He told his audition: "It took about ten or 11 days, I would say, to piece of work through my system. It takes a scrap to become your energy back. My symptoms were a fever, tightness in my breast and a cough."
Cohen says he "took a lot of Tylenol and Vitamin C and liquids" and recommended using a pulse oximeter.
Jason Collins
On March 24, the former NBA actor said he'd tested positive. "I believe I got it while on a trip to NYC at the beginning of the month for the Brooklyn Nets Pride night game," the former Net tweeted. "I had my first symptoms on Wed Mar xi. Terrible headache. A few days later I had a fever and and then the cough.Please stay prophylactic and keep to social distance." Collins is the only NBA thespian to come out as gay. The seven-footer played for 15 years from 2001-2014, but never averaged more than than six.4 point per game.
Novak Djokovic
On June 23, the winner of 17 Grand Slam events said heand his wife Jelena had tested positive. They were infected during a charity tennis result organized by Djokovic known equally the Adria Bout in Zadar, Republic of croatia from June 19-21. All the same, the final match between Djokovic and Gregor Dmitirov had to be canceled when Dmirirov tested positive on June 21. Djokovic returned to Serbia, where he made his announcement.
Djokovic tweeted the following statement:
"I am and then securely lamentable our tournament has acquired harm. Everything the organizers and I did the by month, we did with a pure center and sincere intentions. We believed the tournament met all wellness protocols and the health of our region seemed in skillful status to finally unite people for philanthropic reasons. We were wrong and it was likewise presently. I can't express enough how sorry I am for this and every case of infection.
"It was all born with a philanthropic idea, to direct all raised funds towards people in need and it warmed my centre to meet how everybody strongly responded to this. "We organized the tournament at the moment when the virus has weakened, believing that the conditions for hosting the Bout had been met. Unfortunately, this virus is still present, and it is a new reality that nosotros are withal learning to cope and alive with.
"I am hoping things will ease with fourth dimension and then nosotros can all resume lives the fashion they were. I am extremely sorry for each private example of infection. I hope that it volition not complicate anyone'southward wellness situation and that everyone volition be fine."
The 2d thespian to exam postive in Zadar was Borna Coric.
Djokovic previously had dismissed concerns and criticism of the event, which began with a first leg in Belgrade and continued in Zadar.
"I know in that location has been some criticism also coming especially mayhap from the West of: 'Why do nosotros have the crowd? We don't have the social distancing, what is going on, why are they having this kind of event in the midst of a really hard pandemic in the Due west?' Simply, you lot know, it'due south hard to explain to people that the situation is really, really unlike maybe in America or the Uk than information technology is in Serbia or maybe its surrounding countries."
Djokovic had a bigger controversy in 2022 when Australia deported him subsequently he arrived in the country for the Open up unvaccinated.
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Placido Domingo
On March 22, the opera singer said he'd tested positive. "My family unit and I are in cocky isolation for as long as information technology is accounted medically necessary," Domingo, who is 79 and is from Spain, posted at Facebook. "Currently, we are in skilful health, but I experienced a fever and coughing symptons, therefore deciding to get tested and the consequence came back positive. I beg everyone to be extremely careful... Together we tin can fight this virus and stop the current worldwide crisis, and then we can hopefully render to our normal daily lives shortly." Domingo was referring to his wife Marta and their iii children. The famous tenor has been accused of sexually harassing women.
Kevin Durant
On March 17, the ix-fourth dimension NBA All-Star announced that he, forth with three yet unnamed Brooklyn Net teammates, had tested positive. Durant is sitting out the electric current season with the Nets as he recovers from a right Achilles tendon injury that happened in 2022 playoffs. "Everyone be careful," he told The Athletic. "Take care of yourself and quarantine. Nosotros're going to go through this."
Durant recently commented nigh marijuana hither.
Idris Elba (left) and his wife Sabrina Dhowre have both tested positive for the coronavirus.
Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre
On March 16, the histrion said he'd tested positive. "I feel OK," he tweeted. "I have no symptoms then far simply accept been isolated since I found out well-nigh my possible exposure to the virus. Stay home people and exist pragmatic. No panic." Elba, who is British, has appeared in Avengers: Infinity War, Star Expedition Beyond, Beasts of No Nation, Avengers: Age of Voltron and Pacific Rim. On March 22, his wife Sabrina Dhowre besides tested positive.
They both recovered in April.
Patrick Ewing (right) defends Michael Jordan in the '80s.
Patrick Ewing
On May 22, Georgetown University said its men's basketball game head autobus and former star had tested positive and was currently hospitalized. Ewing, who is 57, added in a argument:"This virus is serious and should non be taken lightly. I want to encourage anybody to stay safe and accept intendance of yourselves and your loved ones. Now more than always, I desire to thank the healthcare workers and everyone on the front lines. I'll be fine and nosotros will all get through this."
Ewing led Georgetown to the NCAA championship in 1984. He was drafted by the Knicks as the No. 1 overall choice in 1985 and spent all only 2 years of his eighteen-year NBA career in New York. Ewing is the league's 23rd top scorer of all time with 24,815 points.
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Marianne Faithfull
On March 30, the British vocaliser was hospitalized in London and tested positive. "She is stable and responding to treatment," her manager Francois Rabard stated. "Nosotros all wish her well and a full and speedy recovery." Faithfull, who's 73, had a number of Top 40 hits in the '60s, including "As Tears Go By" (No. 22, 1964). She'southward released 22 albums from 1965-2018. Faithfull and Mick Jagger were a hot rock & curl couple from 1966-1970. A former heroin aficionado, Faithfull also suffers from hepatitis C.
Later 22 days in the hospital, Faithfull was released on April 22."I want to thank the doctors and nurses who were so good and basically saved my life!" he tweeted.
Freddie Freeman and More MLB Players
On July 4, Atlanta announced that four players had tested positive, including All-Star first baseban Freeman. The other players are pitchers Will Smith andTouki Toussaint and infielder Pete Kozma.
"He's running a fever," manager Brian Snitker stated. "Talked to him this morning time. He'southward not feeling great. Information technology'll be a while before we can get him back."
An abbreviated threescore-game MLB season is scheduled to begin on July 24. As many as 35 players have tested positive in the last few weeks as teams assemble in camps to railroad train for the season.
On July 12, the Yankees reported All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman had tested positive."He'due south got mild symptoms only overall he's doing well," said manager Aaron Boone. "He will not be hither for the foreseeable future." Also, New York infielder D.J. LeMahieu tested positive on July 4.
Other players to test positive include Dodgers reliever Kenley Jansen, Colorado outfielder Charlie Blackman, Minnesota tertiary baseman Miguel Sano, Philadelphia infielder Scott Kingery, Cleveland outfielder Delino DeShields Jr. and San Diego outfielder Tommy Pham.
As of July xiv, a total of 49 MLB players had tested positive.
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson
On March 11, Hanks and his wife said they'd tested positive. Both are currently quarantined in Australia where Hanks was working on a Baz Luhrmann film near Elvis Presley. He was recently nominated for an Academy Honor for his portrayal of Mr. Rogers in It's a Beuatiful Twenty-four hour period in the Neighborhood. Wilson has appeared in numerous movies and Television receiver shows in supporting roles. On March 15, Hanks said they would be in isolation for another 10 days. They accept since both recovered.
Rudy Gobert-Bourgarel
On March 11, the French-born Utah Jazz center said he'd tested positive. That night, a game between the Jazz and Oklahoma City was canceled after players learned about Gobert's sickness. Just days earlier, he joked near the virus at a press conference.Gobert was traded to Utah after existence drafted past Denver in the starting time round in 2013. He was averaging 15.1 points and 13.7 rebounds per game this season.
OnMarch 27, the Jazz said Gobert had recovered.
Daniel Dae Kim
On March 20, the veteran Television receiver player said he'd tested positive. "I was diagnosed with COVID-nineteen, the disease acquired by the coronavirus," Kim posted at Instagram. "Looks like I'll be ok, but I wanted share my journey with you in the hopes that you find it informative or helpful. Hope you lot all stay rubber, calm, and above all, good for you."
He's appeared on Lost, Hellboy, 24 and Hawaii 5-0.
On March 30, Kim said he was "virus free," explaining: "This disease is unlike anything I've ever experienced."
Olga Kurylenko
On March fifteen, the Ukrainian-born actress said she'd tested positive. "Locked up at home later having tested positive for Coronavirus," she posted on Instagram. "I've really been ill almost a week at present. Fever and fatigue are my main symtoms. Take intendance of yourself and have this seriously."
Kurylenko famously played the Bail daughter in Quantum of Solace in 2008. She's also appeared in Oblivion, The Water Augur and To the Wonder.
On March 23, she posted at Instagram:"I accept completely recovered. To recapitulate: For ane week I felt pretty bad and was mostly in bed, sleeping, with high fever and strong headache.The second week, the fever was gone but some calorie-free cough appeared and I felt very tired. Past the end of the 2d week I felt totally fine."
Rachel Matthews
On March 17, the actress said she'd tested postive and had been in quarantine the previous week."Our state is very backside, and nosotros don't accept much of a organisation in place," Matthews posted at Instagram. "BUT receiving a exam that shows yous're positive really doesn't change much. It's non like you receive a specific medication one time positive then please, if you have symptoms at all but can't detect a test please only treat yourself every bit if you lot are positive (y'all most probable are). Rest, drink lots of liquids and Self QUARANTINE."
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Debi Mazar
On March 23, the veteran TV actress said she'd tested positive. "About a month agone my unabridged home (husband and two teen daughters) got an odd bug," she posted at Instagram. "Low form fever, headaches, sore throat, body aches, ears ringing and a dry cough. Information technology cleared upward chop-chop. Seasonal I thought? Only it felt unusual/different.2 weeks later, March 15th, I woke upwardly with all those same symptoms just super intense torso aches and 102.4 fever. I figured maybe I got the flu or Corona? I had had cocktails the evening prior and smoked a few cigarettes.I figured I had jacked my immune system from having a fun night with friends. I called a doctor/friend to enquire if I could get the Covid-19 exam on 3/sixteen. He said NO, I didn't run into the criteria. I hadn't recently traveled out of the state & I hadn't been with someone who had really tested positive. I constitute this kind of a CRAZY criteria for a NYer as I had taken the subway, gone to the theater, the grocery store, the pharmacy, hair salon, etc. I was the Mom who was trying to prepare the home and get supplies & bleach, wipes, dry goods, extra food, etc.Because we take Italian family in Italia and nosotros follow the news closely, my biggest panic was why were they not closing schools in NYC & forbidding movement outside the home without permission, like China and all of Europe?A friend told me that the CityMD Urgent Care in my neighborhood had test kits, which appealed to me equally I wanted to stay abroad from the hospital.I went on 3/17. Offset I was tested for the flu, which was negative. Then they tested me for Covid-19.I was sent home and told to quarantine myself until I had results, which would accept 3-7 days (in S. Korea it takes two hours).Well, today is day 5 and I just found out. I'm hoping I've been through the worst of it already. It's very 'morphy.' One twenty-four hours I feel crappy and the side by side I'yard normal. Today my lungs are heavy, only I'one thousand tough.I can jiff, and I'm going to heal here in my own abode! My family is under quarantine for xiv days. They have no symptoms. I think we all had it perchance already, who knows?Anyway, stay home people! Protect yourselves & your loved ones. Build up your immune systems. Good Luck & God Bless us all!"
Mazur has appeared on Entourage, That's Life, Working and numerous othe shows.
Donovan Mitchell
On March 12, a mean solar day afterwards his Utah Jazz teammate tested positive, and then did All-Star baby-sit Donovan Mitchell, who was averaging 24.2 point per game this season."I'grand asymptomatic," he says. "I could walk downward the street. If information technology wasn't public cognition that I was ill, yous wouldn't know information technology. That's the scariest part about this virus. Yous may seem fine."
On March 27, the Jazz said Mitchell had recovered.
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Cristiano Renaldo
On October 12, the Portugese soccer star tested positive. He last played on October 11. Other players to test positive in the European Nations League includeDiego Costa,Ángel Di María,Paulo Dybala,Zlatan Ibrahimovic,Kylian Mbappé,Neymar and Paul Pogba.
Scarface
On March 26, the Houston rapper said he'd examination positive."I'one thousand scared to death," Scarface admitted the next day on Instagram Live. "I ain't never felt similar this. For the offset time in my life, I felt like I was not in command of what was most to happen. I know we experience invincible at times. If God was trying to get my attention, he now has my undivided attention."
A sometime fellow member of the Geto Boys, Scarface has released 11 solo albums since 1991. He had a No. 12 hit with "Grin" in 1997.
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Slim Thug
On March 24, the Houston rapper said he'd tested positive. "I got tested for the coronavirus yesterday and it came back positive," he said in anInstagramvideo. "As careful as I've been self-quarantined and staying home, I might've went and got something to swallow or something, did some stuff like that, simple stuff like that, nada crazy. Stayed in my truck, had masks, gloves, everything on and my test came back positive, then you lot gotta take this stuff seriously. Sit at home, self-quarantine, do not come outside for however long they sayin'. If you take symptoms, you need to become go checked out or whatever. I'm good, I feel skillful, I don't got no bug correct now. The other twenty-four hour period, I had a slight fever and a cough. I feel meliorate now. I don't accept no fever or nothing like that then I experience similar I'one thousand good, but y'all better take this seriously. It's existent out here, coronavirus."
Slim Thug's get-go ii albums - Already Platinum (2005) and Boss of All Bosses (2009) - hit the Meridian xx.
On April 20, he tested negative for the virus.
Marcus Smart
On March 19, the Boston Celtic guard said he'd tested positive. "I was tested 5 days ago and the results came back tonight, which were positive," he tweeted. "I've been cocky quarantined since the test, give thanks goodness. COVID-19 must be taken with the highest of seriousness. I know information technology's a #1 priority for our nation's health experts and we must go more than testing ASAP." A first-round draft option in 2022 by the Celtics, Smart was averaging 13.5 points and 4.viii assists per game this season.
On March 29, he tweeted:"Corona Free as of two days ago. Cleared past Mass Dept of Health."
Christian Wood
On March fourteen, the Detroit Pistons forward became the 3rd NBA player to test positive. On March 7, the Pistons played the Jazz; Wood was apparently infected while playing that game. An undrafted thespian, he was having his best NBA flavor, averaging 13.ane points and half dozen.vii rebounds per game.
Nets point baby-sit Spencer Dinwiddie tested positive for Covid on June 29.
More NBA Players
After Rudy Gobert tested positive and the NBA suspended the 2022 season on March 11, as many every bit 17 more players accept reportedly tested positive. They included three members of the Brooklyn Nets (including Kevin Durant), two members of the Los Angeles Lakers and members of the Detroit Pistons, Denver Nuggets and Philadelphia 76ers.
On June 23, Denver center Nikola Jokic tested positive in Serbia.
On June 29, Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie said he'd tested positive. "I was ready and prepared to rejoin my teammates as we were to exist an early on entry squad in the resumed flavor," he stated. "I flew private to return to New York, passed multiple COVID-19 tests over my get-go several days in New York and was able to participate in a couple practices within the commencement week.
"Originally, we were supposed to be one of the teams to enter into the Orlando bubble early, but grooming campsite got switched back to New York and unfortunately I am at present positive. Given that I accept experienced symptoms, including fever and chest tightness, it is unclear on whether or not I'll be able to participate in Orlando. Hindsight is 20/20."
Dinwiddie'southward teammate DeAndre Jordan also tested positive on June 29. "Establish out last nighttime and confirmed once more today that I've tested positive for Covid while being dorsum in marketplace," he tweeted. "As a outcome of this, I volition not be in Orlando for the resumption of the flavor.
The NBA is planning to restart the season with 22 teams competing in the so-called "bubble" at Disney Globe in Orlando, FL from July to October.
On June 24, Indiana Pacers guard Malcolm Brogdon tweeted: "I recently tested positive for the Covid virus and am currently in quarantine," he . "I'm doing well, feeling well and progressing well. I programme to join my teammates in Orlando for the resumption of the NBA flavor and playoffs."
On July 5, former MVP Russell Westbrook said he'd tested positive. "I'grand currently feeling well, quarantined and looking forrad to rejoining my teammates when I'1000 cleared," the Rockets guard tweeted. "Delight take this virus seriously. Be safety. Mask upwardly."
Major League Soccer
On July 7, FC Dallas pulled out of the MLS tournament (starting on July 8) after ten players tested positive."The decision to accept them not participate in the tournament is in the all-time interests of anybody, of the Dallas players and the other 25 teams, and allows united states to go on to manage the health and rubber of our players while continuing to go frontwards with our plan," MLS commissioner Don Garber stated.
On July xi, a game between Toronto FC and D.C. United was canceled due to Covid concerns.
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