CBS ‘The Young and the Restless’ (Y&R) star Greg Rikaart (Kevin Fisher) has taken to his Instagram account to share his current situation with his fans. The actor, who is best known for his role as Kevin Fisher on the hit CBS soap, admits that he is suffering from what appears to be like Covid-19 symptoms, but hasn’t received the medical care that he was hoping for yet. Here’s what he has to say.
The actor shared a photo of himself looking rather disheveled and captioned it with, “So in case you missed it on Twitter, here goes. I’ve been mildly symptomatic since Friday/Saturday. 100.5 fever, tightness in my chest and a wet cough complete with some green phlegm. Before the fever, on Wednesday of last week, my dr said I had seasonal allergies. By Friday, he prescribed a zpak, and yesterday, after zero abatement in symptoms following 3 days of antibiotics I tried to get in to see my doctor again, and hopefully be diagnosed with the flu but also be tested for coronavirus. THREE offices refused to see me, including my primary GP, b/c I didn’t meet the CDC threshold of: 1. Having travelled internationally in the past few weeks. 2. Having a fever of 102. 3. Cough. Two offices have me virtual appointments and said only to come in in conditions deteriorate b/c kits are a finite resource right now. Side note, other countries are testing anyone who wants to be tested b/c many ppl infected are walking around asymptomatically.”
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He then added, “The good news is that the tightness and fever have reduced today somewhat BUT since my symptoms started I’ve not only been isolated from the world, but isolated from my son and my husband. I found a doctor who makes house calls to come over today. I’m hoping I get diagnosed with the flu so I can relieve my SUPER DAD of a husband from three days of zero relief. I’m waiting to find out if there is a coronavirus kit avail too which will determines which level of isolation I need to employ. Such a colossal failure by our federal government that this is where we are. I realize that I’m in a fortunate position to find a house call doctor but basic healthcare should absolutely not be a luxury. Fingers crossed that I have the flu! Not something you hear everyday, huh?”
A lot of his social media fans commented on the pic with, “Hope you feel better soon! will be praying for you!!” along with, “Hang in there Greg, hope it’s just the flu and you’re on the mend ASAP.” Another fan wrote, “My dad had the same symptoms at the end of January. It lasted almost a month and was told it was a super flu. He was in the ER twice and had to get stronger antibiotics after the zpack did nothing. Hydrate and get rest.”
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