Colbert contracted Covid earlier this week and started off by hosting a show at home – much like he did during the pandemic. However, the CBS show was pulled yesterday and has also been pulled for the rest of the week.
Covid was also responsible for the cancellation of Strike Force 3 – Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel’s live show that was set to take place in Las Vegas last month before Kimmel contracted Covid.
Colbert himself had to pause production on The Late Show last year after testing positive in April and a recurrence in May.
Totally normal and sustainable society, I definitely see no negative repercussions from this trajectory. BUT, for totally unrelated reasons I would love if we had a database of when celebrities get covid just so I don’t have to continue wondering when rich people with much better healthcare than me drop dead of strokes and heart attacks years earlier than normal.
btw Physics Girl is still recovering from Long Covid and all her youtube friends are still out there not masking. :yea:
He’s 59 and Kimmel 55 so they’ve got to be in some complication risk brackets by now but as media people I guess they are also expected to serve as prime examples of the ‘back to normal’ attitude because CDC says ‘we have the tools now’.
The podcaster Leslie Lee III also got long covid and it took him out of everything for like a year, and he’s still not back to normal I think.