Chris Cuomo’s Wife Cristina Tested Positive For coronavirus

Chris Cuomo’s wife now also has the coronavirus.

The TV host announced that Cristina Cuomo was positive for COVID-19 on his primetime CNN show Wednesday — about two weeks after revealing his own diagnosis.

"It's very rare for a family to be one-and-done, Cristina now has COVID, she is now positive,” said Chris, 49, during an interview with his older brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “It just breaks my heart, It is the one thing I was hoping wouldn’t happen and now it has.”

Cristina, 50, a magazine editor, had been posting updates about her husband’s condition on Instagram as the family quarantined at home, with Chris living in the basement.

She’s “not upset” about catching the illness and “takes everything in stride,” Chris said, adding that he’s been “a bit of a mess about it.” Her symptoms include a loss of smell and taste, which Chris said he’d heard, anecdotally, was more common in milder cases of the disease.

His side-effects were more severe, and included a fever so extreme, he’d chipped a tooth while shivering. The governor noted that “it’s very hard for people to quarantine in a home [together] and other people not to get it.”

“In some ways this was inevitable,” Andrew said. “Luckily it was Cristina and not one of the kids.”

Andrew quipped: “The good news… Cristina is going to blame you for this, there’s a lot of other things as you know that she can blame you for, so this is going to be number 17 on the list.”

“I know it makes a bad situation worse,” he added, but “it’s all going to be fine.”

During the family’s ordeal, the couple’s three children, however, have “stepped up” and are “helping each other,” Chris said.

“Mom is the core. When mom goes down, you feel it…,” he said. “They’re more quiet. They’re focused on her and hopefully, it makes the family stronger.”

During a Tuesday interview on his show with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Cuomo said he had hoped to make it 72 hours off Tylenol with no fever, but developed a 101 degree temperature after just 60 hours.

"I have to be honest, I got a little cocky," Cuomo said. "I started thinking about, 'Oh great, I want to get retested and then I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that and I'm going to do this.' Not the way COVID works. … It comes in waves." 

And the previous night, Cuomo expressed frustration with the fact that he couldn't shake the virus, despite some symptoms improving. 

"I'm scared by this. I'm scared by the potential of this and it frustrates me because I can't get out of this basement," he said Monday. "Everybody tells me it's gradual, it takes time – anywhere from two to three-and-a-half weeks, but it is maddening to have this little, stupid fever."

Cuomo also made headlines this week after expressing frustration over elements of his job, saying he was tired of interviewing disingenuous politicians and didn’t “value indulging irrationality, hyper-partisanship.” He added: “I don’t like what I do professionally.?

He since reaffirmed his commitment to CNN and his gratitude for his prime-time perch, adding he had no intention of leaving the network But he questioned how much of a difference he was making. 

Cuomo clarified his comments Tuesday on his SiriusXM show, saying “it is frustrating to do this job in an environment where people are not interested and open. It is hard to practice journalism when people are so intent on believing what they want to believe for political advantage.”