Chris Cuomo Addresses Psychological Toll of Coronavirus

CNN's Chris Cuomo speaks to Dr. Sanjay Gupta about his recent coronavirus symptoms and how he's been managing his illness at home.

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Chris Cuomo tackled the psychological toll of the coronavirus on Tuesday night on CNN as he continues to publicly battle the illness.

Before welcoming Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and the New York State Commissioner of Health on Tuesday, the Cuomo Prime Time anchor updated CNN's chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta on his condition. "I feel lousy because it's nighttime and I'm a little depressed because yesterday and today the fever came back with a little more gusto than it had the past few days before that," he told Gupta, mentioning that he was fighting a fever for 20 hours a day. "I know all the probabilities are on my side ... but you start to doubt," he said, referencing stories about young, healthy people dying from the virus.

He added, "I'm doing better than I deserve, and I'm doing what I can, but it is a humbling, humbling process."

On the psychological toll on his family, he told viewers, "I feel my edge. I feel my frustration. Just be careful. The people around you are so nervous ... don't play into that by making it worse." As for his own situation, he said, "I'm getting a little mean from this right now. I've got to deal with it."

A running theme on Tuesday's episode was Cuomo's frustration with the in-person voting that was conducted in Wisconsin the same day. Showing images of voters standing in line six feet apart, Cuomo asked, "Who wins in this? What value wins? Because the opportunity for loss is obvious."

Gupta, during his time on the show, also expressed resistance to in-person voting amid "stay at home" policies and recommendations. "The science and public health community are pretty clear: You can't do that right now," he said.

Biden also criticized the decision to allow voters to go to the polls in the state. "We shouldn't have had the election in the first place, an in-person election ... but this is all about the Republican Legislature pushing really, really hard because I think they realize that low turnout affects their interests," he said.

"We've been through hell before, we had an election through the Civil War, we had an election through a pandemic. The idea of postponing an election is not possible," Biden told Cuomo.

Ever since he came out publicly with his coronavirus diagnosis, Cuomo has hosted shows and taken interviews from his basement about the details of his condition. He has detailed hallucinations, how he chipped a tooth and drastic weight loss due to feverish sweating. 

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