'When you are sick and it's not getting better, you think, 'Yeah, I might have that thing because I couldn't get a test,' ' Heidi Klum tells PEOPLE of her coronavirus fears before testing negative
tested negative for the coronavirus, tells PEOPLE that it took a "really long time" before she was able to learn her diagnosis. "If you reverse back in time, you knew that there was something, but we were filming every day with people and an audience.
There was no social distancing, no one knew too much about this," she recalls of filming before stay-at-home guidelines were implemented. "When I fell ill, it was on March 10. I was experiencing fever and sore throat, so I told production and immediately the medic did my vitals and said, 'Yes, you have a fever,' and then I was dismissed," Klum says. "It felt strange to leave, but that was the right thing to do," she adds. "I told them how I was feeling. They looked at me, checked me out and said, 'Yeah, go home.' Then I was asked to get tested ASAP so that I could go back to work because we didn't know that this was all unfolding the way it did. They were like, 'Okay, get tested as fast as you can.' "However, obtaining a coronavirus test was not as easy as Klum had thought. "I tried and I went on the search for the test. I was unaware that there were no tests anywhere. I was just asking everyone because we were told that there are tests for everyone," she says. "That wasn't really the case, so that took a really long time. Obviously, they were all nervous there too," she says of theteam. "We were just all learning things every day and it took a really long time until I could tell people that I was negative." Vergara, Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel and host Terry Crews continued to film without an audience before production officially shut down. "I only got to tape for five days before I fell ill. And when I fell ill, they continued for, I want to say, another five days. So, I never got to see the changes within our production because when I was there it was a full audience," says Klum, who self-quarantined at her home. "When you are sick and it's not getting better, you think, 'Yeah, I might have that thing because I couldn't get a test,' " she says. "Then once I did get tested, it took weeks to get [the results] back, which obviously is normal because there were so many people doing the same thing. It took a while, so I couldn't really tell people because I didn't know."
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