Pink is donating $1 million to fight pandemic after revealing she tested positive for coronavirus – CBS News

Pink revealed on social media Friday night that her family has been quarantined for weeks after she tested positive for coronavirus. The celeb singer acknowledged she and her 3-year-traditional son Jameson were already self-setting apart as soon as they started exhibiting symptoms several weeks ago. 

Her vital care physician “fortunately” had entry to assessments, she acknowledged, and he or she tested positive. 

After continuing to safe haven at house for the final two weeks, Pink acknowledged they were re-tested and now no longer have COVID-19. The 40-year-traditional slammed the government for failing to present frequent entry to sorting out because the virus spreads across the country. 

“It is an absolute travesty and failure of our govt to no longer invent sorting out extra widely available,” the three-time Grammy Award winner tweeted Friday night. 

“This illness is serious and right. People wish to keep in mind that the illness affects the younger and conventional, wholesome and unhealthy, rich and unhappy, and we must invent sorting out free and extra widely accessible to defend our kids, our households, our buddies and our communities.” 

The singer acknowledged she is donating $1 million to lend a hand fight coronavirus, to be split between two assorted causes. $500,000 will possible be donated to the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Emergency COVID-19 Crisis Fund. 

$500,000 will even be donated to the Temple University Clinic Emergency Fund in Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania native acknowledged the donation honors her mom, Judy Moore, who labored within the clinical institution’s Cardiomyopathy and Coronary heart Transplant Center for 18 years. 

“THANK YOU to all of our healthcare experts and all people within the enviornment who’re working so exhausting to defend our most popular ones,” she acknowledged. “You are our heroes!”

The singer joins a rising list of considerable public figures who’ve launched positive coronavirus diagnoses, including Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Idris Elba, Prince Charles, Kevin Durant, Top Minister Boris Johnson, Chris Cuomo, Senator Rand Paul and deal of others. 

As of Saturday, Johns Hopkins University has confirmed over 1.1 million folks globally have tested positive for COVID-19, and over 60,000 have died from the virus. The U.S. has the supreme different of diagnoses within the enviornment, with over 278,000 positive cases and greater than 7,000 deaths. 

Pink ended her tweets with a plea to the general public to proceed self-setting apart. “These next two weeks are crucial: please occupy house. Please. Have faith. Residence.”