And actor, Idris Elba has contracted COVID-19...

[hlthe2b]

Be well, soon. Be well, all of us.

Link to tweet

[W_HAMILTON]

1. If he doesn't have symptoms, how did he get tested?

I thought people are having problems getting tested even WITH symptoms, much less those without symptoms. Or is he in a different country right now?

[hlthe2b]

2. He apparently had contact with a confirmed case.

[helpisontheway]

17. Here you can get it if you are sick and you had contact with someone that tested positive. Nt

[hlthe2b]

18. Are you in the UK?

[helpisontheway]

20. No. I'm in Virginia. Sorry..nt

[misanthrope]

3. He's a celebrity

Access to wealth and power has its privileges. It could also be possible he's not in the U.S.

[Coventina]

7. He's a Brit. n/t

[Blecht]

4. He probably had direct contact with somebody who did show symptoms and was then diagnosed.

That would qualify a person in many parts of the country.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Possible that he came in contact with someone who had it, and they called him in

for a preventative test.

[violasays]

11. He was at the event that Sophie Trudeau attended

It was told to attendees that they had direct exposure with someone who tested positive. I'm sure the fact that he's Idris Elba helped tremendously, but he didn't just get test3ed on a whim.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Thank you.

I'm sure this is a process they are doing everywhere. Which is why they include the number of people who are being watched in the statistics.

[RhodeIslandOne]

14. Scary

Same event, boom, infected.

This shit is well beyond just direct contact.

[uponit7771]

25. +1

[sweetloukillbot]

6. He's English

So that might be part of it...

[Leith]

8. Stay positive and don't freak out

Good advice. And somebody should tell Sabrina to stop touching her face even though it may not really matter at the time and place they are in.

[Roland99]

9. No! Chassit! Not Roland of Gilead

[Yavin4]

16. Not Stringer Bell!!!!

[IcyPeas]

19. back then I had absolutely no idea he was British.

[Doodley]

10. My wife and I have had shortness of breath, fever, flu-like symptoms for two weeks. No tests.

[hlthe2b]

13. You just got the Trump test special (no test at all)

Glad you are both better.

[RhodeIslandOne]

15. He said "have had"

Not that it's better.

[hughee99]

21. Does it seem odd that he's talking about quarantine, social

Distancing and such, with someone else standing right over his shoulder who doesn’t seem to need to be there?

Hope it all turns out well for him (and everyone else).

[hlthe2b]

23. It is his wife also quarantined.

[hughee99]

33. Since he's tested positive, and she hasn't been tested at all

It seems like not the best idea to quarantine together.

[hlthe2b]

34. They were both at the same London event and both exposed to a confirmed case; in addition she's

been exposed to him. As I told another poster, this is in UK, but the same would be done here.

She is exposed to not one, but two confirmed cases and while it would be nice to test her, it is not absolutely necessary. Rather she is assumed to be exposed and potentially infected and thus quarantined along with her husband. In order for either to leave quarantine, they both will have to test negative after 14 days. Testing is academic in her case. She is asymptomatic and it does not change what therapy would be offered to her. If there was a vaccine or a partially preventing treatment available, that would be one thing. There is not.

Sorry, but this is exactly what would occur to you if a family member in your home became infected. You would all be quarantined together, albeit if the member was symptomatic, you would be advised how to isolate within the home to protect the well and potentially uninfected members. If you chose to leave, rather than remain with the family member in quarantine, you, having been exposed would still be restricted in the new locale under your own 14 day quarantine. In the latter instance and in an ideal world where testing were readily and overwhelmingly available, we'd test you and if negative (on repeated tests, given your exposure) you could be released from quarantine early, but not allowed to return to your original home with the still quarantined family member.

[hughee99]

35. I guess I'm thinking more along the lines of Ebola than coronavirus.

If it were ebola, i imagine they wouldn't do it this way.

[hlthe2b]

36. No. Absolutely not.

[Demonaut]

22. why are they not wearing masks!

[hlthe2b]

24. They are in home quarantine--both Idris and his wife. Both exposed to a confirmed case;

both asymptomatic. No need for masks as no one else is there with them.

[Demonaut]

27. "she has not been tested" which would be the wiser course of action?

[hlthe2b]

31. He has & positive.. Both have been exposed so both quarantined.

Both will have to be tested negative before leaving quarantine.

[Demonaut]

26. "no symptoms and can easily spread it"

[LisaL]

28. That's why they are staying home.

Of course he was able to get tested. People in US with mild symptoms will never know because we don't have enough tests.

[Demonaut]

29. thats more a public service announcement, good for them, letting the public know they are at

risk for a silent infection

[LisaL]

30. Here in US we know, but can't do nothing about it.

If you can't get tested, you don't know that you have it. So you are not going to stay home.

[Demonaut]

32. yes, that wa my point, we don't know if we are carriers, you or I