# Musicians, Movie and Tv Celebrities with Coronavirus. Discussion **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 12, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312 "2020-03-12T02:34:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/41 "2020-03-17T15:47:02Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Some encouraging news… Tom Hanks and Rita have left the hospital and isolating at home. There is a movement afoot to rename this disease THD (Tom Hanks Disease). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/42 "2020-03-17T16:35:30Z")
If you can survive _Turner and Hooch_, you can survive anything. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/43 "2020-03-17T16:59:59Z")
Archduke Karl von Habsburg of Austria is the first royal to [get](https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/royals/austrian-archduke-karl-von-habsburg-59-becomes-the-first-royal-in-the-world-to-confirm-a-coronavirus-diagnosis/ar-BB11iI0h) it. Grandson of the last emperor. First prize is a trip in an open motorcar thru Sarajevo. Austria, hey? Maybe he’ll end up quarantined with Tom and Rita. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/44 "2020-03-17T18:23:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **aceplace57** : > > Apparently the virus hits some people harder than others. True for any disease, but even more true for this one than most. Something like half of those infected experience no symptoms at all. But a few die. You can’t get a much wider range of variability than that. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/45 "2020-03-17T19:02:56Z")
[Moderating] Looks like the new forum is live. This thread probably fits better there than in CS. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/46 "2020-03-19T22:39:29Z")
New York Times has a list: > **[Celebrities, Athletes and Politicians Who Have Tested Positive for Coronavirus](https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-celebrities-actors-politicians.html)** > > From the actor Tony Shalhoub to the singer Pink and the basketball coach Patrick Ewing, public figures have shared their conditions and advice with the world. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/47 "2020-03-20T00:47:15Z")
[Shut-in celebrities sing “imagine no possessions” on Twitter. Twitterverse goes bananas over the perceived tone-deafness.](https://boingboing.net/2020/03/19/shut-in-celebrities-sing-ima.html) > [@](#): > > A group of celebrities, including Gal Gadot, Will Ferrell, Mark Ruffalo, James Marsden, Lynda Carter, Jamie Dornan, and Amy Adams, posted a video of each of them, in their isolation, signing lines from John Lennon’s “Imagine.” The attempted message was that we’re all in this together, we will get through this, but the Twitter response was immediate and brutal. > > It was the line “imagine no possessions” that triggered the most vitriol. People seeing this tweet who are currently out of work and understandably nervous about it barked that they don’t have to imagine it. Others shot back with sentiments like: We don’t need you singing to us. How about you spending a million or two to buy ventilators and masks and donate them them to hospitals? One person posted the pay that each actor gets per film. “Imagine no pinhead leaders, real or aspiring.” They left out that line. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/48 "2020-03-20T19:58:13Z")
Can I mention an NPR radio personality? Just last Sunday I listened to that day’s episode of This American Life; the theme was appropriately low-grade dread. At the end of the show, host Ira Glass announced that he had the virus. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/49 "2020-03-20T23:31:36Z")
Andy Cohen has Coronavirus. > **[Andy Cohen Tests Positive for Coronavirus - E! Online](https://www.eonline.com/news/1133097/andy-cohen-tests-positive-for-coronavirus)** > > Bravo's Watch What Happens Live host shared the news on Friday. Read his message to fans here. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/50 "2020-03-22T14:10:04Z")
One of my favorite actresses [Debi Mazar](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/03/21/coronavirus-younger-star-debi-mazar-tests-positive-covid-19/2893754001/) has it, along with her family. Took quite a while to get a confirmation test due to a lot of run around. (The family having it is a presumption since they are around her and sick. Not tested yet, if ever.) Sounds very sick. ☹ Some areas are telling doctors not to do tests due to shortages unless it will alter the treatment methods used. The number of undiagnosed people around simply due to unavailability of testing must be shocking. ---
**Author:** ![2Bits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e95f7d/32.png) [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/51 "2020-03-22T18:50:25Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Can I mention an NPR radio personality? > > Just last Sunday I listened to that day’s episode of This American Life; the theme was appropriately low-grade dread. At the end of the show, host Ira Glass announced that he had the virus. > > Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk Not so. I listen yesterday and he explained that he had self-quarantined because he had come into contact with someone who has it. He don’t got it. (yet!) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/52 "2020-03-22T22:32:56Z")
Plácido Domingo has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Domingo is 79. This could easily be fatal for a man his age. He’s reporting mild symptoms so far. > **[World-renowned opera singer Plácido Domingo says he has coronavirus | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/22/entertainment/placido-domingo-coronavirus-positive-opera-trnd/index.html)** > > Opera star Plácido Domingo has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the artist confirmed on his Facebook page Sunday. I remember Domingo from the famous 3 Tenors concerts. José Carreras is still alive. Luciano Pavarotti died a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/53 "2020-03-22T22:45:05Z")
José Carreras is on a farewell tour. He recently cancelled appearances because of Coronavirus. He’s 73 and not ill. I hope he’s taking precautions. [https://mobile.twitter.com/jcarrerastenor](https://mobile.twitter.com/jcarrerastenor) ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/54 "2020-03-22T22:49:18Z")
Harvey Weinstein has the virus. I wonder if the care he will receive, if he needs it, will look a lot different than it would have not too long ago. > **[Harvey Weinstein in Isolated Custody After Possible Coronavirus Contraction](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/harvey-weinstein-isolated-custody-coronavirus-contraction-1285862/)** > > Harvey Weinstein is currently being held in isolated custody after two inmates at the Wende Correctional Facility in Erie County, New York, east of Buffalo, have tested positive for the novel coron… ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/55 "2020-03-22T22:58:27Z")
Weinstein is already in very precarious health. I doubt he’ll survive the Coronavirus. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/56 "2020-03-22T23:28:39Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Weinstein is already in very precarious health. I doubt he’ll survive the Coronavirus. Wanna bet? I’ll put up $200 saying the rapist survives, even money. Survival defined as cause of death (everyone dies sometime) something other than COVID-19/viral pneumonia. #QuarantineJustGotInteresting ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/57 "2020-03-22T23:55:37Z")
I’m not that invested in Weinstein’s health. If he dies, he dies. I wouldn’t be upset if he lives to serve more prison time. He recently had a Coronary procedure. He seems to be in declining health. But I’m not a doctor. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/58 "2020-03-23T00:55:40Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Plácido Domingo has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. > > Domingo is 79. This could easily be fatal for a man his age. He’s reporting mild symptoms so far. > [https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/22/entertainment/placido-domingo-coronavirus-positive-opera-trnd/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/22/entertainment/placido-domingo-coronavirus-positive-opera-trnd/index.html) > > I remember Domingo from the famous 3 Tenors concerts. José Carreras is still alive. Luciano Pavarotti died a few years ago. Considering the news of how he’s touched many people inappropriately, maybe not surprising. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/59 "2020-03-23T23:12:32Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Harvey Weinstein has the virus. I wonder if the care he will receive, if he needs it, will look a lot different than it would have not too long ago. > > [Harvey Weinstein in Isolated Custody After Possible Coronavirus](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harvey-weinstein-isolated-custody-coronavirus-contraction-1285862) Karma’s a real bitch, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312/60 "2020-03-23T23:21:12Z")
With the number of well known people testing positive; I have to wonder about the percentage of the population in general. Frightening. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312.md?page=4)