Daniel Dae Kim Has The Coronavirus, And Wants People To Stop Calling It The 'China Virus'

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'Despite what certain political leaders want to call it, I don’t consider the place where it is from as important as the people who are sick and dying.'

"I'm grateful to be alive and healthy," Kim said on Instagram."It gives me hope that through our collective efforts we can beat this thing andSpeaking from his home in Hawaii, the 51-year-old South Korean American actor announced he was tested after returning from New York. He had been there filming the television series, on which he played a doctor recruited to a hospital during a flu pandemic.

"I was asymptotic during all of this time, but as the flight was close to landing I started noticing some scratchiness in my throat, which is unlike how I usually get sick, so when I landed I called my family doctor," Kim said.The actor said he self-quarantined in a room in his home away from his family, but soon began feeling tightness in his chest, body aches, and a fever.

Kim took himself to a drive-thru testing facility for the test, which he described as painful."But it was worth it because of what I found out," he said. The actor said he has not been to the hospital and is feeling better."Today, even though I'm not 100%, I'm pretty close," he said.

 

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To be honest, (without being called a racist), the fact of the matter is that the Chinese have terrible personal hygiene habits. Chinese men continually blow their snot onto the street, for people and children to walk thru, and in the case of children to crawl thru.

I don't care. Deal with it buttercups.

We love you jin!

It originated in China so put 2 and 2 together.

I firmly believed it should be called after Xi since it was his politics that let the virus loose in the first place while doctors were being punished.

I’m sorry our president is such a huge ignoramous.

“People” aren’t calling it that. Those are NOT people. HE is not a person. ❤️Daniel

Maybe we dont consider your ides important. I love the name but am horrified there are people attacking Chinese and Asians. Still there is nobody being attacked here and there are foreign people throughout this place

The Chinese started the cover up early in January, silencing their medical people and miss reporting, they didn’t even stop the celebrations during Chinese New Year 1/25, Million of people getting together, did they close their open-markets, no. Nothing to see here they said.

CCPVirus, feel better?

This is literally the first time I’ve heard it called the “China Virus”

talissaG

I will agree only if China stop pointing blame on US or Italy for someone of their own fault.

And we want China to own up and take responsibility instead of blaming others but

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