CNN host Chris Cuomo, brother of NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has coronavirus

The news came a day after the Cuomo brothers spoke to each other via remote video link for a CNN interview about the coronavirus outbreak, as they have previously done.

The good-natured banter televised Monday night between the brothers, whose late father Mario Cuomo had served as New York’s governor, was widely noted on social media.

Andrew Cuomo teased Chris about being sent to the basement by his wife before Chris aired video of him cooking their mother’s sauce.

“You’ve always been the meatball of the family,” Andrew Cuomo jibed at him during the interview.

Gov. Cuomo said at his press conference in Albany that his family found out that Chris was positive this morning. 

“Everyone is subject to this virus. It is the great equalizer,” the governor said.

“He is going to be fine. He’s young, in good shape, strong, not as strong as he thinks, but he will be fine,” Gov. Cuomo said.

“I spoke to him this morning and he’s going to be quarantined in his basement at home,” Andrew Cuomo continued. “He’s just worried about his daughter and his kids, he hopes he didn’t get them infected.”

The governor said that about two weeks ago, “I had a situation with Christopher” after learning that the anchorman had their mother, Matilda Cuomo, over to his house.

“I said that is a mistake,” Cuomo said at the press conference. “She’s older, and she’s healthy, but I said, ‘You can’t have mom at the house.'”

“You bring her to the house, you expose her to a lot of things,” Andew Cuomo said he told his brother. “And you can expose mom to the virus.”

“Love, sometimes, needs to be a little smarter than just reactive,” Cuomo said.

Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/31/chris-cuomo-has-coronavirus-cnn-anchor-brother-of-andrew-cuomo.html