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Broadway star Cordero has emerged from coma, wife says
Broadway star Nick Cordero emerged from his coma, wife Amanda Kloots triumphantly announced Tuesday. “The Rock of Ages” star has spent more than a month in a medically induced coma over coronavirus complications.
“I asked the doctor today, ‘Can we say he is awake?’ ” said Kloots, speaking on Instagram Stories while holding their 1year-old son, Elvis. “And he is awake.”
Despite the progress, Kloots said her husband is very weak and “by no means out of the woods yet.”
“There are still concerns with other things,” she said, including an infection in Cordero’s lungs. “But this news today on his mental status is a win!!”
Damon recalls ‘Contagion’ film, says his daughter had virus
Matt Damon revealed his oldest daughter had coronavirus in New York City while the rest of the Damons were quarantined in Ireland.
The actor, 49, had been in Dublin shooting Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel” when the country began to shut down over coronavirus concerns. He, his wife, Luciana Barroso, and their three younger children stayed in Ireland while college student Alexia, 20, stayed stateside.
“She’s in New York City, and she had COVID really early on along with her roommates and got through it fine,” Damon
told a Dublin radio station.
The actor also touched on his role in 2011’s “Contagion.”
“Anybody who says you couldn’t predict this – I mean, just look at ‘Contagion,’ ” Damon said. “Ten years ago, we made a movie just by talking to experts and asking them ‘How would this look? And how would it go down?’ So it’s upsetting . ... I think at least now, we know what to do, and we won’t look at people like they’re crazy when they tell us to go sit at home and wash our hands and socially distance.”
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