Ellen DeGeneres opens up about COVID-19 experience as talk show resumes

Ellen DeGeneres talks about her experience with COVID-19.

the Ellen DeGeneres Show resumed Wednesday – over a month after the host’s diagnosis and the show abruptly ended. She addressed the public, who are virtual again in the midst of California’s coronavirus crisis, and called in medical expert Dr Sanjay Gupta to discuss the latest news with the coronavirus.

“Obviously, there’s a lot of negative stuff going on, so I want to talk about something positive – my COVID test,” joked the 62-year-old star, who revealed her diagnosis on December 10. “Positive!”

“I’m fine now,” she said. “All is well. I am completely clear,” after suffering excruciating back pain in the midst of his illness.

She thanked “all who reached out with kind words of support. I wish I could have hugged each of you. It would probably have been dangerous and illegal.

DeGeneres said she was on set, in hair and makeup, last month when her assistant came to inform her that she had tested positive. She said, “everyone around me has run away.”

She continued, “I immediately left the studio and our COVID security team informed everyone that I had been in contact with… I went home, obviously. I had to quarantine. Portia [de Rossi] Made me sleep in a different room, in a different bed, because she wanted the race car bed all to herself.

Jokes aside, she said she slept “16 hours a day” for the first three days. On the fourth day, “I woke up with back spasms” and they persisted. While her doctor put her on pain relievers and muscle relaxers, they “didn’t help. My back got worse. It was as if I had cracked a rib. She was also later put on a steroid pack, she said, adding that she had since learned that back pain could be a symptom of COVID-19.

DeGeneres said back pain was her only symptom, however, noting that she didn’t have a fever or headache and hadn’t lost her sense of taste. “Although I wear Crocs with socks” while she was sick, she joked.

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“I am very, very lucky. Very, very blessed. That was it for me, ”she said, but added,“ I still don’t know where I got it. I wear a mask. I wash my hands … I know a lot of people are struggling right now. My heart goes out to them all.

DeGeneres then spoke to Gupta about COVID-19, particularly in California, where one in five people have tested positive. There have been over 2.8 million cases in the state with over 31,000 deaths.

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