A list of famous coronavirus victims, to be regularly updated

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, first lady of Canada

Francis Suarez, mayor of Miami

Sandi Patty

Sean Payton, Head Coach of the New Orleans Saints.

NBA players Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert and Kevin Durant.

R1 Sophie Trudeau is not First Lady, she is simply the Prime Minister's spouse. Technically, Prince Philip is Canada's "First Lady."

NON! Manu is Canada's First Lady.

Michel Barnier, EU Brexit negotiator.

Charlotte S. Lawrence, wannabe singer, bff of Kaia Gerber, daughter of Christa Miller and great-great-great granddaughter of Sarah Lawrence.

Too lazy to look up his name, but the Mayor of WEHO.

Nadine Dorries, British MP, health minister, nurse, novelist and crazy batshit right-winger.

Actors Rachel Matthew Frozen II Kristofer Hivju/Indira Varma Game of Thrones Olga

Sports Three unnamed members of the Brooklyn Nets (Kevin Durant has gone public) Callum Hudson-Odoi/Daniele Rugani/Manolo Gabbiadini/Mikel Arteta (Soccer)

Mario Diaz-Balart Congress

Heidi Klum is waiting for results. Her husband tested negative after they both felt unwell.

Sorry about the formatting at R10

Olga Kurylenko was cut off.

Marcus Smart, Boston Celtics

Two unnamed LA Lakers

Has anybody famous, or at least notable, died? The only one that I am aware of is Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti, who was 92.

Because no tragedy is real unless it happens to someone famous.

So out of all those listed only Tom Hanks is actually famous

It's another AIDS, where only one or two known people get it after 1991

[quote] So out of all those listed only Tom Hanks is actually famous

Idris Elba is not famous??

The Prince of Monaco neither??

Donald Trump. As always, he's been lying to us. Probably Mike Pence, also.

Original Family Feud host Richard Dawson would’ve been a regular Typhoid Mary, the way he slobbered all over every female contestant.

I think Idris is faking having Corona.

Is Pat Sajak wearing gloves when he holds contestants' hands?

They’re not corona virus victims. They’re people with corona virus.

And we’ll be joyously, amicably uncoupling groom any contact with their diseased asses until this passes.

Helen Lawson. Poor virus doesn’t stand a chance in that blood.

No, Patty. They are “people living with the coronavirus.”

Gurl, we are Corona Warriors!

i still don't believe any of these people have it. i think it's Testing Theater to encourage the rubes.

same as sports dudes visiting sick kids in hospitals.

they are "doing their part".

I want A commercial for The Coronavirus Treatment Centre of America’s!

I miss Peggy!

R19, Idris and Sophie Trudeau were at the same event on March 4th in London. She has it and so does he. Also, Lewis Hamilton is in the same picture, but he hasn’t made any announcement if he got tested.

R19, Idris and Sophie Trudeau were at the same event on March 4th in London. She has it and so does he. Also, Lewis Hamilton is in the same picture, but he hasn’t made any announcement if he got tested.

R29 It was a We We event?

Nicola Zingaretti, head of Italy’s Democratic Party, and governor of Lazio, which includes Rome, was pro the first high profile person to get infected.

Yes, r30.

(R26) How insane is this asshole. He'll get it and pass it along. Stupid people will kill many of us with their sheer stupidity. Americans are idiots.

The reputation of everyone who did that Imagine video

R21 r24 You bitches are both wrong. They are corona virus SURVIVORS .

R31'smention of Nicola Zingaretti prompted me look him up to see how he was doing and I found this:

[Quote]"Ciao to all. I'm still in isolation at home, I had a couple of days with a high fever, now it's going a bit better, I've started antiviral therapy and we're fighting," he said on Facebook.

I wonder what he's taking.

This list idea is dumb, OP.

[quote] You bitches are both wrong. They are corona virus SURVIVORS .

Not yet.

Perhaps not 'famous', I think this is the first media person affected.

This morning at 4 am, I noticed that guys are still looking on Grinder. Are people actually hooking up for sex during all this shit?

[quote]Original Family Feud host Richard Dawson would’ve been a regular Typhoid Mary, the way he slobbered all over every female contestant.

LOL! He was quite the Casanova.

[quote]So out of all those listed only Tom Hanks is actually famous

Bullshit, Daniel Dae Kim is famous. That said, his video announcing his status seemed a little self-absorbed.

r36 On DL, we're less concerned with what he's taking than whether or not he drains his pasta.

Wow a lot of stupidity in this thread.

I don't know if he'd be considered famous, but he was on TV for being the impeachment lawyer in the Trump impeachment hearings -

Daniel Goldman

[quote] This list idea is dumb, OP.

Then scroll past, Blanche.

Sounds like invasion of the Body Snatchers

What happens when the uninfected are in the minority?

Andy Cohen, come on down.

Has anyone checked on Sweet Brown? I’d imagine she’s susceptible, what with her bronchitis and all.

Porn whore Aspen Solomon's dad is dead! ... allegedly.

Being infected with bacteria or virus does not make one a VICTIM.

These people are not "VICTIMS"

sheesh.

Saxophonist Manu Dibango.

He's 86.

[quote] I think Idris is faking having Corona.

Andy Cohen certainly is

Where in France does Manu Dibango live? Anyone know? Glad he beat it.

Debi Mazar.

Mazar called a friend of hers who is a doctor on Monday to ask if she could get the test for the deadly disease.

But she was denied the test because she didn’t meet the criteria — she hadn’t traveled out of the country or interacted with anyone who had tested positive, she wrote.

“I found this kind of a CRAZY criteria for a NY’er as I had taken the subway, gone to the theater, the grocery store, the pharmacy, hair salon,” Mazar wrote.

Doctors first tested her for the flu, but results came back negative. She was then tested for the coronavirus and doctors told her to self-quarantine while waiting for the results — which she received Saturday.

“I’m hoping I’ve been through the worst of it already,” Mazar wrote. “One day I feel crappy and the next I’m normal. Today my lungs are heavy, but I’m tough”

Someone airbrushed the hell out of that photo of Aspen. He has never looked that thin.

Our very own Greg Rikaart. He'd posted about six days ago that he was symptomatic, but was having difficulty getting tested, being told that he didn't meet the threshold.

R49, apparently not any more because the tweet was deleted

Placido Domingo has announced that he has the virus. He's 79. Good luck, Placi.

From Broadway, Aaron Tveit and Gavin Creel

Interesting, R59.

I never before thought about how it might alter someone's singing voice and/or breath control. I enjoy both of them so I hope it doesn't damage their voices.

th least of their worries now, the opera singers I know are looking into other professions

Manu Dibango has died.

shit

Terry McNally is dead to me. DEAD TO ME!!!!

Jackson Browne

Lucia Bosè, 1950s Italian movie star, died in Spain last night.

Colton Underwood (The Bachelor)

So like three people on this list are actually famous.

Prince Charles

And so is Mona Foot, r64. He had a great ass, but he couldn’t live forever.

Never heard of him, but Rolling Stone noticed:

Folk singer John Prine sounds quite dire

Oh no r72 - I didn’t know about John Prine. Devastating.

[quote]Jackson Browne

At least he's got Rosie.

John Prine’s “Hello In There”

So, like, R68 is so stupid she is just waiting to hear Britney' status.

Mother Dexter

Shit, I like John Prine's music. Hope he pulls through.

Plácido Domingo has gotten worse - 14 days after diagnosis.

uh, oh

Alan Merrill of The Arrows, who wrote Joan Jett's hit, "I Love Rock n Roll" died in NYC of COVID-19.

Thanks for letting us know r81. Alan Merrill, for those who don’t know, was son of jazz singer Helen Merrill. He was also a childhood, and lifelong, friend of Laura Nyro. Here’s a bit about “Wedding Bell Blues...

[quote] So, was there really a "Bill"? Alan Merrill would know - the son of Jazz singer Helen Merrill, he grew up with Laura, and they thought of each other as cousins, since her uncle married Alan's aunt. Alan, who became a Rock Star in England with his band The Arrows, explains.

Around 1958 or so my mom was dating a married man named Bill Carter, a b-film actor. He was married to Trink Wiman, heiress to the John Deere fortune. My mom and Bill co-owned a jazz club named The Night Owl (not the Greenwich Village rock venue) and were having a very passionate and public relationship. The club was quite possibly funded by Ms. Wiman's money. The affair was so serious in fact that Trink had private detectives invade our apartment at 1040 Park Avenue in '59, I was there and remember it. The ensuing newspaper scandal was the reason we left to reside in Europe for many years.

This was big family gossip of course, and Laura listened to it as a child and later wrote about it. My mother could never marry Bill, and didn't. Her timing was bad. Seeing a married man was a big deal in the '50s, but that the wife was such a wealthy heiress upped the ante. The affair ultimately cost Carter his marriage in 1960, with Wiman divorcing him, I guess Carter blamed my mom for his losing his grip on Wiman's fortune, and their relationship soured. He met and married actress Elaine Stewart, that is after breaking up with my mom in Europe sometime around in 1961 while I was in boarding school. My mother seethes at the mention of his name now and refuses to discuss him, although she did confirm the story of the affair (and Laura admitting to her that it was the inspiration for the song) when interviewed in Michele Kort's book about Laura's life - Soul Picnic.

My mom was not amused at Laura's incisive lyric, but in fact Laura was an investigative journalist as an artist and got the story spot-on in the song. A zinger from my mom's perspective, but a big winner in terms of sale for Laura!

Queen Elizabeth’s Footman Diagnosed with Coronavirus

44-year old Czech billionaire, Daniel Křetínský

Prime Minister Boris Johnson

r76 Yeah because QEII's footman is SO FUCKIN' FAMOUS

You're lame ass attempt at a comeback was just that lameass.

Boris Johnson's creepy puppetmaster, Dominic Cummings, is also showing signs of infection and has now retreated to its coffin in the crypt.

R82 that's uncanny. My father had an affairs with a married Carol Merrill, the lovely speakerine on The Price is Right, as well as with married Dina Merrill. There was a huge scandal, still talked about to this day, and I was forced to leave Hotchkiss for le Rosey, which I didn't like, until I met a notorious playboy prince from the Middle East at the Gstaad Palace, when I was 16 years old, who took me as his lover. I would say his name but I would be killed. Has anyone checked in on the still living Carol Merrill?

I guess the UK has a different Coronavirus than elsewhere. We are required to self-isolate for 14 days even if exposure is only suspected. Charles actually tested positive and only had to keep to himself for 7 days??

Further to above, Placido Domingo only began getting really sick close to his 14th day of isolation. Is there a medical professional here who can shed light on this only 7 days for Prince Charles arrangement?

1984 Olympic pairs figure skating gold medalist Oleg Vasiliev has it.

R86, 'Oh, dear' x 3.

R88 just to give us a little hint as to who your playboy boyfriend might be, what decade were you at Le Rosey?

R89, Charles apparently got another test fter 7 days and it was negative. You have to self-isolate for 14 days if suspected if you can't get a test. Although 7 days is not long enough imo, even if you get a negative test, so it's good that Charles is going to continue his self-isolation for the rest of the week (that BBC article is a little confused about what he's doing).

Michael Sorkin is not perhaps famous outside of architecture and urban circles, but he was a huge inspiration for me. He died yesterday, age 71. He had issues with cancer, however. Brilliant writer - strongly suggest his work for anyone interested in American cities.

[quote] Carol Merrill, the lovely speakerine on The Price is Right,

I’m having problems believing your tales if you can’t even get right the TV show where this supposed paramour of your father’s worked.

14 days is the outlier, meaning that is the longest established time it takes to show symptoms from known exposure. A vast majority have it within five days..

Lucian Grainge - Universal Music Group CEO

Fountains of Wayne lead singer hospitalized in medically-induced coma.

Carol Merrill was the curtain lady on "Let's Make a Deal" not "The Price is Right."

r100 That's what r96 was saying.

NOOOOO!!!!

shucks

[quote]I guess the UK has a different Coronavirus than elsewhere. We are required to self-isolate for 14 days even if exposure is only suspected. Charles actually tested positive and only had to keep to himself for 7 days??

The official advice is that if you have symptoms/are ill you isolate yourself for 7 days after which you either have recovered or find yourself in hospital. If you are in contact with someone who is ill, you isolate yourself for a fortnight because of the incubation period before symptoms can make themselves felt. For those who have "mild symptoms", i.e. a nasty bout of flu, 7 days or so seems to be the average recovery time.

Of the two people I know who have it, one will have recovered by the end of the week and the other has taken longer but still was just short of being hospitalised. Common sense would tell you to stay isolated until fully recovered, so the official advice is a minimum period.

[quote]I guess the UK has a different Coronavirus than elsewhere. We are required to self-isolate for 14 days even if exposure is only suspected. Charles actually tested positive and only had to keep to himself for 7 days??

The UK advice is to self isolate for 7 days if you show symptoms. If after 7 days you don't have a fever/test negative you can stop self isolating. If you live with someone self isolating, you need to do the same for 14 days. If after 14 days you show no symptoms/test negative, you can stop self isolating.

Andrew Jack

Keep safe Olivia!

The great Polish composer Krzystof Penderecki, died. No cause of death was listed, but his passing should be noted. You may not know the name, but many of you saw films in which his music was used.

Damn. For those unfamiliar with [R108]'s subject, his music was used frequently in films such as "The Shining" and again on the TV show "Twin Peaks: The Return".

Yes, Penderecki is basically the soundtrack of the pandemic.

Adam Schlesinger, of Fountains of Wayne, died earlier today from COVID-19. He'd been hospitalized in upstate NY for over a week.

Brian Stokes Mitchell has tested positive for the virus, but sounds like he is doing OK.

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List of celebrity deaths to date:

Soul Makossa - Manu Dibango RIP

Should we start calling them COVIPs?

David Schramm died. TV and stage actor.

Unclear if it was the virus, but that's my guess. Sad.

I remember him on WINGS when I was a kid. It's hard to believe he was only about 43 when he played that part.

This doesn’t sound good.

Ugh. That's terrible, R118. He's so young, too. Wonder if he's a smoker or has some other unrelated health issue. If not, that's just scary as hell.

Not famous per se, but never the less a hero. Oh yes, and as DL often says he was "family".

"ER doctor dies in husband’s arms in their NYC apartment six days after showing COVID-19 symptoms"

Plácido Domingo says he’s at home and feels ‘fine’ after coronavirus battle

Children’s author Michael Rosen ‘very poorly but stable’ after night in intensive care

An update on John Prine...

William Helmreich, Sociologist Known For Walking Every Block Of New York City, Dies

There seem to be a fair number of famous trumpet and sex players who’ve died. If anyone is going to have good lung capacity, it’s them. So if they’re dying surely the rest of us are fucked.

^sax players^ not ‘sex players’... they have a different type of capacity... and, oddly, don’t seem to be dying at the same rate.

Manu Dibango has the worst luck. He's from Cameroon, pop. 24 Million. Currently, there are 255 infected and 6 deaths, of which his is one.

Athletes and instrumentalists - large deep lung capacity might mean that their infections start in their lungs. That's the most dangerous place for coronavirus to start. Rather than nose or throat. These people are deep breathers and may have inhaled virons directly into their lungs. Apparently if the virus starts in nose or throat, the immune system is already working on it by the time it infects lungs, if it ever gets there.

I believe Dibango was living in the South of France and got sick and died there. NO?

R129 My apologies. Thought Dibango was back in Cameroon. He was 86 at the time of his death,

Both Ellis Marsalis and Bucky Pizzarelli died yesterday after getting the coronavirus. Two brilliant musicians and teachers, who were also the patriarchs of talented musical sons.

This disease is so very strange, talented writers, musicians, architects, are all getting sick and dying. However soulless Republican politicians, anchormen and dubious "religious" leaders even older have not been struck at all.

[quote] However soulless Republican politicians, anchormen and dubious "religious" leaders even older have not been struck at all.

Be careful what you wish for R131.

So sad to hear about the wonderful Adam Schlesinger. Take time to do a deep dive into all the music he had a hand in.

I am not "wishing" for anything r133, and I wrote my post quite carefully. I am making an observation. Do not play games with me.

My deeply pro-Trump Staten-Island-based brother and his wife have been sick with the coronavirus for two weeks. They initially ignored social-distancing as my brother watched Fox 24/7. However he and his wife probably contracted it from his step-daughter, who works on Rikers Island and became infected first.

Has anyone heard from Helen Lawson?

Or Betty White?

Never mind!

that's good

r135 is not paying attention.

How is Richard Simmons doing? He’s been the social distancing poster boy for years now so I imagine he’s ok, but I’m still worried for him. Anyone got the inside?

R140 What did he know in advance and how long did he know it? Someone needs to look and see if he invested in ventilators and bodybags and is making a killing off this.

Boris Johnson to remain in coronavirus self-isolation with high temperature

R142 Well, he always was a hot head.

Has this been a mentioned yet?

Maria Mercader CBS journalist.

Aaron Tveit talks about his illness. Sounds like he's recovering.

Canadian Michael Rosenberg, who would not put off his daughter's wedding at the Crowne Plaza in Montréal on March 16, is now in ICU. Money can buy a lot of things, but not everything... link is en francais, sorry folks.

Hickey at R144 is one of Andy Cohen's besties, BTW. Cohen also was diagnosed and made a speedy recovery.

Hickey had directed SJP and Matthew Broderick in the PLAZA SUITE revival that never opened on Broadway. I wonder if everyone involved was exposed.

Ali Wentworth

Update on Harvey Weinstein....

R127, wouldn't he be counted as a French death, since he lived and died and most probably caught the virus in France?

Coronavirus seems to have taken a serious toll on elder jazz musicians.

CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Justo revealed her positive diagnosis. She’s also showing symptoms.

Patricia Bosworth, actress and biographer of Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando, died today from COVID-19 complications.

Bosworth as a young actress before she turned to writing.

Do you recall her in The Nun's Story as Simone?

Voila

I was surprised that Emile Fischer's death didn't get more attention.

Pink had it and is now donating $1 million.

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Oscar-Winning Singer Christopher Cross Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Warns Fans It’s Not a Hoax

r161 "Fans"? Plural?

Did HE think it was a hoax? Why would he feel the need to say it at this point? Nobody with a brain in their head believes that.

Lets get real here. Did Idris Elba really have corona or just the flu. That has been buzzing around gossip sites for a couple days now, because that he wasn't actually tested.

Patti Bosworth was my good friend for about 40 years. A wonderful woman -- smart and kind and funny and weird. I knew few people who had her energy, and if the virus hadn't't gotten her, she would have been writing well into her 100s.

Fearing the coronavirus, Michael Avenatti, R. Kelly and other celebrity inmates seek early release

I just posted r166 and it got me to thinking about Bill Cosby and wondering how that fucker is doing. Found this...

Also this, surely they won’t let this monster loose!!??

Frankly, the prisons ARE overcrowded.

Just saying, R168.

Can we get Cosby and Harvey Weinstein to share a cell?

Based on an Anita Pallenberg Facebook post, the Twitter-verse is saying that Marianne Faithfull is in hospital with Covid-19.

Oh, that's okay. Marrianne will astral-project out of her body until it passes.

R171 Wrong Marianne.

We can only hope he gets it.

Let hope these assholes get it too.

R165, as a teen I was taken with her Clift biography, must have read it at least a few times. Was she troubled by Brooks Clift's allegations (that she refused to add context he'd provided for what he thought were mischaracterizations)?

Marianne Faithfull has been in poor health for years. I hope she can fight this.

"At the age of 111..."

Mrs. Kittner from Jaws

John Taylor from Duran Duran! From Duran's FB page, which DL won't let me link:

DEAR FRIENDS OF MINE after giving some thought to this, I have decided to share with you that I tested positive with the Corona Virus almost three weeks ago.

Perhaps I am a particularly robust 59 year old - I like to think I am - or was blessed with getting only a mild case of Covid 19 - but after a week or so of what I would describe as a 'Turbo-charged Flu', I came out of it feeling okay- although I must admit I didn't mind the quarantine as it gave me the chance to really recover. I am speaking out in answer to the enormous amount of fear being generated by the pandemic, some of it entirely justified, and my heart goes out to everyone who has had to deal with real loss and pain. But I want to let you know that it isn't always a killer, and we can and will beat this thing.

Sending LOVE to all my Homies and Fans, in Italy particularly, the UK and the US and everywhere in the world I have been lucky enough to visit on my travels with DURAN DURAN.

Cannot wait to be back onstage again, sharing new music, love and joy. Stay safe, stay connected and get creative!

Love John

Beware of the boomerang effect, John- you could be on a ventilator just when you thought it was over!

Ritchie Torres, NYC elected official.

I'm not ready for Marianne Faithfull to go, just yet.

Plácido Domingo Says He’s On The Mend From COVID-19

Placido was probably hoping the virus would take him out so he wouldn't have to deal with the #metoo accusations.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has lost his mother after she contracted COVID-19.

R179 I had it bad for John Taylor back in the day!

Hal Willner — the respected producer who worked with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull, was a long-time “Saturday Night Live” staffer and compiled a series of eccentric all-star tribute albums — died Monday at the age of 64.

John Mulaney remembers Hal Willner on IG.

RIP John Prine

Ugh. So sad about John Prince. Hal Wilner sounds like a lovely guy. I had no idea bout that T-Rex tribute album he produced with the likes of Nick Cave. Will have to seek it out.

The ultra-straight Todd Chrisley.

“Can we talk about this b**** called corona?” he shared. “I have been battling corona for 3 weeks. I was in the hospital for 4 and a half days, fever between 100 to 103 [degrees] and it has been the sickest I have ever been on this earth.”

Todd added that “hopefully, I will get better every day, but as of right now, folks, I still am not clicking on all cylinders. I am probably about 70 to 75 percent of what I normally I am, but that last 25 percent is kicking my ass.”

Allen Garfield.

Garfield was a good actor i n a lot of good 70s movies. As the man on the second cross in "Bananas" (1971). RIP

He had a stroke almost 20 years ago which left him unable to work.

It lives!

Up to 150 members of the Saudi royal family reportedly have coronavirus

Florida Transgender Icon Henrietta Robinson Dead at 79

Good news, R195. I hope they all die. They engineered 9/11.

Holy shite, r196's hair has Trump mother's hair:

God eye r196

^good not god^

Mr. Robby Browne, NYC power real estate broker. Oh and yes he was family.....

R201 sounds like he was a nice guy. RIP Robby

British actress Hilary Dwyer.

Country singer Sturgill Simpson.

Successful Broadway actor, in his early 40s, appeared quite healthy with a 10 month old kid at home. Scary. He's unconscious, in ICU, his wife says he's fighting for his life.

Any update on whether Jackson Browne has recovered?

R206 I heard he’s running on empty.

Tim Brooke-Taylor from The Goodies.

Known mainly for his daytime soap roles, actor, Jordi Vilasuso, and his family all got it, all now recovering. Video of their experience with it. They feel fortunate that California's stay-at-home order came the day after they'd been exposed, which meant they didn't spread it further.

Pink & her son got it. Sounds scary

I'm still recovering.

Cards, flowers, etc.

Really hit by the death of Tim Brooke Taylor and had a bit of a cry reading the BBC obituary - the lockdown must be getting to me. Barely known in the US, I imagine, but a comedy Titan to anyone growing up in the UK in the 70s and still brilliantly funny to the end on the radio comedy series I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. One of the regular rounds is 'Singing one song to the tune of another' and his version of My Girlfriend's In A Coma to the tune of Tiptoe Through the Tulips is unsurpassed.

Pink looks like latter day Judy Garland at r210!

[quote]I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Coincidentally, the motto of the Trump Administration.

Except that nobody in the TA apologizes for even the most egregious and preventable failing or level of ignorance.

George Stephanopoulos

Does it seem like the famous cases are getting fewer and far between? Numbers within the general public aren’t slowing.

Meh. It's all C-listers on down from here.

Bye, asshole!

R219 Thoughts and prayers.

r221 that is the longest gif I've ever come across.

At 46 seconds, can it really be considered a gif?

I'm sure most of the posters here will say "who?", but exploitation/horror director/producer Joel M. Reed died Sunday of coronavirus according to his brother on Facebook. He was 86 years old. It has yet to make the rounds on any news outlets.

I think I had it but no test for me.

Allen Daviau, Oscar nominated cinematographer of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Avalon, and Bugsy.

r226 Are you famous?

Bernie Rubin, founder with his wife Phyllis of New England furniture chain Bernie & Phyl's.

NBA all-star Karl-Anthony Towns' mother, Jacqueline Towns, died earlier this week following a month-long battle with CV19. (his father was also hospitalized, but is since recovering).

She was famous among NBA fans for wanting to leap out of the stands to scratch punk Joel Embiid's eyes out, as he left the court following a scuffle with her baby. Good times. Hard to believe that was only five months ago; feels like five years. R.I.P. Mama KAT

(watch upper right-hand corner -- the lady in the Timberwolves 32 jersey, being held back by her husband)

Noach Dear, former NYC city council member, then became NYS judge.

Dear voted against a civil rights bill prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing, and public accommodation.

Richard Quest

On Twitter, Quest wrote, “I have caught coronavirus. I am blessed in that I have few symptoms — just a cough. I am saving my prayers and thoughts for those less fortunate. Stay in. And protect lives.” He hosts his show from New York.

Oh Nooo!! Not jaunty Mr. Quest!

[quote] Does it seem like the famous cases are getting fewer and far between? Numbers within the general public aren’t slowing.

COVID first hit the jet-setters, because they were most in contact with people who had been to China or Italy or Korea when those countries were the first to be infected. It also really hit public figures who "press the flesh" a great deal, such as politicians (Boris Johnson) or royals (Prince Charles and Prince Albert).

Now after that first spate, it's hitting people who can't manage to get away rorm other people through all this. Most of the middle class and the wealthy are safe (if they obey the CDC's recommendations), but it's really hitting people now who work in nursing homes and poor people who have to work through the crisis and people in nursing homes and homeless shelters. It;'s also hitting some of the idiots who won't follow the CDC recommendations.

George Stephanopoulos is fine, and sends his warmest wishes.

^She's got him by the throat for Christ's sake...

[quote]Does it seem like the famous cases are getting fewer and far between?

No, even in NY state where 1% of the population has it, far fewer famous people exist..

Most places it's in less than tenths of a percent.

91 year Ann Sullivan, an American animator, who primarily worked for Disney Animation.

Elizabeth Warren's brother (famous adjacent)

[quote]Richard Quest

Is his son Jonny OK?

There used to be a separate thread for people who died from COVID vs. those who were just diagnosed. Now it's kind of all run together and is confusing.

Richard Hake

We can correct the list and remove Andy Cohen - he lied about having it for attention.

How do you know that r244?

R245 They don't and Cohen didn't fake it. R244 is just being bitchy.

r246 - it is impossible he had it, or if he did, he is the baby Jesus born. He announced he tested positive on the 20th of March. He announced he was returning to work on the 30th of March. The guidelines for COVID say you can only remove yourself from quarantine if you are symptom-free without the use of Tylenol for 3 days or if you have two consecutive negatives tests 24 hours apart. He also announced he was reuniting with his son that weekend (27th-29th). So you tell me, how does someone test positive and recover from COVID in less than a week? Keep in mind he even stated in interviews he was separated from his kid for 12 days, not even the 14 days required for quarantine. Twelve days. So in that, we subtract 2 or 3 (depending on if he got tested or just waited the three days with no symptoms). That puts him with Coivd for 10 days or 9 days. There is just no way.

R247 R246 Well, if that's the case it should be widely published by the media and out him for a very low act - pretending to have an illness that you don't/didn't have can be a crime if it is for profit. Guess it won't happen though with all the carnage unfolding at the moment with COVID-19 but he needs to be held to account if he is lying - its unacceptable.

r248 - yeah no one wants to seem to pursue it. I cannot understand how people just ignore the facts. I would love for him to get an anti-body test and it be negative lol.

R247 Prince Charles was also out of self-isolation after 7 days. In those reports, they said it was his wife, Camilla, who had to be quarantined for 14 days to see if she might still come down with it.

[quote] Up to 150 members of the Saudi royal family reportedly have coronavirus

Coronavirus for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Your elderly gay uncle who watched daytime soap operas will probably remember Forrest Compton as "Mike Karr" from "Edge of Night." In fact, your straight uncle might remember him too. EON had a huge male fan base.

Prince Charles had mild symptoms. Cohen had a pretty bad case (according to him), fever, chills, body aches, vomiting etc. He worse a pulse ox to keep an eye on his oxygen levels (again all according to him).

[quote] Cohen had a pretty bad case (according to him) ....

That can be chalked up to being a drama queen.

[quote]Cohen had a pretty bad case (according to him), fever, chills, body aches, vomiting etc

Sounds like a two week drunk to me.

Don't forget Philip McKeon, one of the first victims

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Huh r256?

[quote] In those reports, they said it was his wife, Camilla, who had to be quarantined for 14 days to see if she might still come down with it.

Thankfully, it turned out to be nothing more than a mild case of hoof-and-mouth disease.

r258 Just ignore him. He keeps posting similar shit everywhere.

Roy!