The anchor said coronavirus has also negatively affected his mental state.
Speaking Monday night on"Cuomo Prime Time" with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Cuomo expressed frustration with the fact that he"can'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."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.""This virus creates emotional illness and creates psychological illness," he said."I'm telling you: It is in my head.
On March 31, Cuomo announced he had tested positive for COVID-19. Since then, the anchor has kept viewers updated in broadcasts from isolation in his basement,, which at times included hallucinations, profuse sweating, headaches, pains in his face and weight loss. "When the fever spikes you just want to curl up in a ball and stay there for the next six, seven hours and you can't. You've got to bundle up your clothes, you've got to start drowning yourself in fluid," Cuomo said on air last week.
He said Monday he had begun to feel symptoms a few days before officially testing positive and knew"as an essential worker" that he needed to be tested,"because I was in the mix."
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