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Shivering, hallucinating, beaten ‘like a pinata’: Chris Cuomo’s ‘haunted’ night with coronavirus

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April 2, 2020 at 5:22 a.m. EDT
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo gives an update on his coronavirus diagnosis during Wednesday's live broadcast of “Cuomo Prime Time.” (Twitter/“Cuomo Prime Time”/CNN)

When the sun came up Wednesday morning, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was already awake. But as Cuomo tells it, his early rising wasn’t by choice.

“I was up all night,” he said during Wednesday’s edition of “Cuomo Prime Time,” broadcast live from his basement where he is self-quarantining after announcing one day earlier that he tested positive for the novel coronavirus.