Whoopi Goldberg fears she may have contracted a coronavirus similar to Covid-19 after her battle with pneumonia last year. The Sister Act star spent a month in hospital at the start of last year, long before the virus that has caused a global pandemic emerged in Wuhan, China in December.
However, she believes she may have caught an earlier mutation of the disease which has now killed more than 360,000 worldwide. “I personally think that people like me last year had some form of this and it evolved into Covid-19.
This is no joke,” she said during a recent appearance on U.K. TV show Loose Women. “I was in the hospital for about a month.