CHRIS Cuomo’s son Mario, 14, has been diagnosed with coronavirus.
The CNN anchor’s wife, Cristina Cuomo, revealed on Wednesday Mario had tested positive, saying the devastating news made her “heart hurt”.
Both Chris and Cristina had been struck down with COVID-19, but have since recovered.
“This virus has created a different version of me. My hope is to be stronger, healthier, smarter about the virus at large,” the mom-of-three wrote on Instagram.
“After 10 days of ups and downs, feeling good one-day and terrible the next, I am now working hard to get my son, Mario, through the virus.”
“My heart hurts more than my head over his infection,” she continued.
“This virus does not discriminate. While kids are more resilient, they can suffer [the] same severity of symptoms.”
“I’m applying a modified version of my remedies for his protocol with a focus on lots of vitamins,” she revealed to her followers.
“Since his sense of smell and taste have disappeared, I am feeding him healthy foods that I normally can’t get him to touch. I kept a diary of the past week including my remedies and things that I did to stay sane through it all”
Last week Cristina revealed the hardest part about having the virus was having to be separated from her kids.
Cristina, 50, tested positive for COVID-19 after her husband contracted the illness.
Chris just left the family’s basement, where he has been quarantined, on Monday, after recovering.
Their three children, Bella, 17, Mario, 14, and 11-year-old Carolina, “have grown up overnight” with both their parents sick and in isolation, she said.
During an interview with his brother, New York Governor Cuomo, Chris said of his wife’s diagnosis:
“It just breaks my heart. It was the one thing I was hoping wouldn’t happen. And now it has.”
Cristina had been helping her husband recover after he had become ill.
“It’s very hard for a person to quarantine in a home and other people not to get infected,” Gov. Cuomo told his brother.
The Cuomos live in New York State, the hardest hit region of the US by COVID-19, with 250,000 cases and 14,828 deaths.
