Andy Cohen has revealed that he fell ill for a second time with Covid-19. He first took ill in March 2020. He’s since been double vaccinated. He recently received his booster shot on Thursday, December 9, and then began to feel unwell.
At first, Cohen, 53, thought it was a reaction to the booster, but a couple of days later, he felt even worse. A test revealed he was positive again for Covid (the booster shot reaches its maximum efficiency at least a couple of weeks after being administered, so this sounds like a case of bad timing on Cohen’s part).
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Cohen revealed his illness on Monday on his SiriusXM show. He was absent from the show last week, and this explains why.
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“I thought I was sick from the booster, that I was having a reaction to the booster. And then two days later, I was like, ‘Wait a minute, this is quite a big reaction’. And I got pretty sick.”
He said he was on day 10 of his quarantine period, and had just had a negative PCR test, so would soon be able to reunite with his son, Benjamin, 2.
He said that at first he’d tried to isolate himself from his son within their home, but it didn’t work out. The youngster didn’t really understand the need to keep his distance.
”I quarantined in the house. The first day was really drought and he was really upset and he wanted to hug me so badly,” Cohen told his Radio Andy co-host John Hill. “Thankfully, what wound up happening was we tried cohabitating and he was not getting the message that he could not come near me and it was serious. It was really upsetting. And he wound up going out to Long Island with his nanny.”
“We quite literally separated,” Cohen said. “It was not pretty. It was not pretty.”
Thankfully, as shown on Cohen’s Instagram stories, Benjamin is now back at home with his daddy for Christmas and excited about Santa visiting.
Here’s hoping they both enjoy a wonderful, healthy, Christmas together.
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Early studies have shown that being double vaccinated offers some protection from serious illness if you become infected with the new Omnicron variant of Covid-19. However, the booster shot appears to significantly improve that protection
jayceecook
I’m glad he’s vaccinated and got the booster but he should seriously closely examine his behavioral patterns. Is he taking the necessary steps to minimize his chance of exposure? Is he putting himself in the company of people who are antivax and think CV19 is a hoax? At his age with a 2 year old child, he really should be extremely proactive.
rangerwilcox
he really does get around too much, doesn’t he?
jayceecook
@rangerwilcox I mean I’m not s*lt shaming the guy. Most people need sexual contact with other people. I’m just baffled that somebody in his position who CAN afford to take more precautions to keep himself healthy doesn’t seem to. If I were a single parent at that age with a 2 year old and I had CV19 already I would definitely distance myself if a more contagious variant is sweeping through where I live. I guess you just can’t fix stupid.
ptn2719
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the vaccines for this disease are completely and totally worthless.
jayceecook
That is categorically false. They are doing what they were designed to do.
What’s happening is a combination of people uninformed about what the vaccine is supposed to do, both political parties bowing to mob mentality in different ways, medical science playing out it real time, as well as people just choosing to ignore everything and do what humans always do is think about themselves and only themselves. Most humans may have moved out of the caves, forests, and deserts but they have never moved on from tribalism.
Cam
What a shock, the same old anti-LGBTQ, pro-Republican troll is also a lying anti-vaxxer.
Bosch
We’ve been vaccinating our species since 1798. If, after 220 years and in the midst of a pandemic, you still don’t understand how they work, then that’s just plain dumb.
Californiadreamer
COVID vaccination is supremely successful. It renders the vast majority of COVID illness to those vaccinated to be manageable, hugely reducing hospitalisation, intubation, and death – for those vaccinated, and especially to those boosted. Look at how far we’ve come in the last year. THOSE are the facts.
jayceecook
@Bosch Probably longer if you mithridatism.
cuteguy
@ptnM0RON2719
Once again you and your Faux News trolls are WRONG. I currently have covid for the first time and the vaccines helped curb the reaction. The vaccines do work. Unless you listen to Fox News
Doug
I can’t believe anyone could seriously make a statement about that and pretend to know anything about how vaccines work with covid. You clearly have way too much time on your hands and just get some weird thrill out of trying to get a rise out of people.
brian_m
By your logic so is natural immunity since Cohen has prior infection.
Heywood Jablowme
”I quarantined in the house. The first day was really drought…”
Really drought??? There must be a wrong word in there?
jayceecook
Drought: a prolonged or chronic shortage or lack of something expected or desired.
Because he was distancing himself from his son there was no physical contact between them. No comfort. No human interaction with his father. AC says that his son wanted “hugs”. That obviously wasn’t possible. Because his son is 2 and doesn’t understand why they are being separated he most likely cried, screamed, pouted, threw temper tantrums, etc. The 2 year old child could see and hear his father but had no way of reaching him. That is kind of a traumatic thing for a kid.
Kangol2
Maybe a word was missing or transcribed. “The first day was a drought”? “The first day was tough.” Etc. I’ve noticed that interview transcriptions these days often get basic words wrong.
Kangol2
Mis-transcribed. I see Queerty’s not allowing easy deletion and reposting, for some reason.
jayceecook
@Kangol2 I’m not sure. It’s a possibility. I went and read other articles and they either quote him as saying “drought” or “rough”. I don’t have Sirius XM so I can’t get access to the actual audio. I tried YouTube but didn’t find anything.
Cozmo2
This troll probably hooked up with someone who has Covid
Ronbo
Please access your humanity. Cohen may be a repugnant individual pushing elitist programming and having no understanding of personal friendships and relationships; but, we should not berate the sick. (Although a publicity stunt for public attention and sympathy would not be foreign to his character)
Cam
@Ronbo
Oh look, the right wing troll switched screenames so it could come in here and defend not getting vaccinated, blah blah blah.
Tell Putin to send smarter trolls.
Ronbo
Oh look… Cam is calling names and attacking people for having opinions.
We must remember not to comment until Cam has told us what we think.
Queerty moderators, please check and report on the 18 people that Cam now claims are the same person. Truth is important… and if Cam is lying, should he NOT be held accountable? His targeted harassment is against your own rules.
Cam
Maybe Cohen should try to stay home once in a while instead of still acting like he’s 21.
Karlis
Maybe you should realize that you don’t know Andy Cohen and thus know precisely nothing about what he does and does not do in his daily life.
Mister P
I will never understand the motivations of anti-vaxxers. Why is it so important to them to spread lies?
Cam
Many of them profit off their lies.
Mack
Was reading yesterday about difference between the Vaccinated and unvaccinated cases and the unvaccinated is really in the lead with cases and deaths. Guess they’re running a race to see how many they can kill because they’re doing a bang up job with it.
Brian
I think some people are embarrassed to admit that they don’t understand something. They took one year of biology in high school in 1975, then never studied it again. That’s a fine reason for being unable to read or interpret biology news. But instead, they decide to be confident and proud.
I see this happen with politicians, too, which worries me. They’re so afraid of a “gotcha” moment in an interview, that they won’t ever admit, “I have more to learn about that. I’ll give you a comment after I’ve had more time to read and consider things.” Politicians are too confident and they make wild/stupid/inaccurate claims all the time.
dhmonarch89
poor little Publicity is so much better off with the nanny!
Ronbo
Best laugh of the day! More please.
quetzel1964
Can’t we show kindness and respect insteda of bullying and hating on the man? This thing is serious. He has to get out there and work. Even you,yourself, never know whom you may come in contact with. What if people bullied you like this? It wouldn’t be a laughing matter.
Fahd
Sounds like there may be no Andy on CNN this New Year’s Eve. Just Desserts?
Openminded
Obviously most of you don’t have kids or you wouldn’t be so hard hearted towards Cohen. I don’t follow the guy so I have no idea what kind of person he may be, but being a father of 3 myself, my heart can break recalling similar situations with his young child when I would have to leave for work commitments or other things. Kids are great judges of character and to know his 2 y/o wanted Dad so badly indicates to me that he is doing parenting right.
jayceecook
Having children who love you, show you affection, and seek your comfort does not mean the parent or parents make good choices. Abused children often show the typical signs of having loving parents. It’s how some abuse goes unnoticed.
I’m not being a bit hard on the guy for no reason. Rich and/or people with power sometimes forget they are not invulnerable which leads to risky decisions and behavior.
Openminded
@Jaycee, I live in the South, and around here, people taking unnecessary risks in re Covid is not at all limited to the rich and powerful. Even with Omicron looming so large, virtually all stores have mask and sanitizers in the clearance bins at greatly reduced prices and still can’t give them away. If there is an ounce of truth in the claims that those who survive Omicron have a much greater immune defense after recovery than what vaccines provide, then assuming the death rate stays low, we should come out the other end of this invincible. You won’t see 1 in 500 wearing a mask in our area, indoors or out.
Kinkslola
Biggest man ho on crap TV
MISTERJETT
i’m not a fan at all, but i wish him well and a speedy recovery.
bachy
Andy Cohen is 53 years old. Not exactly “elderly,” but getting up there. He should be paying closer attention to his health, especially considering he’s already endured COVID once before. Plus, he’s worth close to $50 million, so he certainly has the resources to put a little distance between himself and the seething masses.
winemaker
Another overpaid talentless buffoon trying to be relevant when nobody really gives a rats tukus about updates. Most of us, if not all of us have better things to do with our time than worry about and deal with than getting constant updates on the never ending drama about so called ‘stars’ or celebrities like andy cohen, the kardashians. lindsay lohan and brittany spears . The list of these so called celebrities is to long to mention when nobody with a life gives a rats ripe ass.
Karlis
And yet you, who claim not to give a rat’s ass about information about Andy Cohen, have probably read this piece and felt inspired to pontificate about it in your comment. Apparently you think that you have “a life” because you are so very much too pure for school, but face it, dude. You read. You commented. You ain’t as pure as you think.
Kangol2
Why are you so full of rage, Winemaker? I think you wrote about being bullied when you were younger, and the answer to that is to get psychological help now that you are an adult. But if you care so little about Cohen, why did you feel the need to post on this thread? Seriously? As Karlis said, based on your comments on this story, you apparently have no life. Again, there are talented psychologists out in SF and the Bay Area, where you’ve said more than once you live or are based.
Also, if you’re going to criticize others about their grammar, which includes punctuation, perhaps try to do better yourself. I.e. “rat’s tuches,” “never-ending,” “too long,” etc.
Terrycloth
They should give him a shot in his face to keep his mouth shut .he never shuts up either with Andy Cooper or on his own show or when he cohost with Kelly Ripa .verbal endless chatter…every empty space has to be filled up with his nonsense…boring. Man..unfunny…what excatly is his talent ?
Kangol2
“was at an event”
Kangol2
Covid-19 is spreading quickly in New York, among the vaccinated and unvaccinated, in part because of the unvaccinated, those without booster shots, and the city’s density, etc. so I am not surprised Andy Cohen came down with Covid-19. He was not fully boostered yet and probably was at an event where someone had Covid-19 and unknowingly spread it. I know of several vaxed people, some boostered, who have caught the Omicron variant, but almost all with very mild symptoms.
Meanwhile, unvaxed people are still dying or getting very, very sick from the Delta variant. I’m glad Andy Cohen is doing OK and that he had someone to take care of his child, which leads me also to hope that, given his age, he has designated a caregiver or caregivers for his child in the case of serious illness.
cuteguy
Andy obviously got it AGAIN bc he was out late partying AGAIN. He’s free to live his own life how he sees fit, but it’s sad how he uses his innocent son as a prop. He even said in an interview that he would only date with someone in mind for his son, yet he’s still out and about in the party scene. Howard Stern called it and said Cohen would make a horrible father.