‘Trust Me, You Don’t Want This’

Chris Rock has change into the most recent celeb to check constructive for COVID-19, saying on Twitter Sunday, “Hey guys I just found out I have COVID, trust me you don’t want this. Get vaccinated.”

Back in May whereas selling his newest film “Spiral,” Rock stated on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” that he had acquired the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, joking that it’s the “food stamps of vaccines” and that he jumped forward of seniors to get the shot.

“I was like, ‘Step aside, Betty White! I did ‘Pootie Tang’! Step aside, old people!” he quipped. “I was like Billy Zane on ‘Titanic.’ Leo [DiCaprio] died. Billy Zane lived to see another day. I don’t want to be Leo at the bottom of the ocean.”

Rock’s an infection comes because the surge in COVID-19 infections fueled by the Delta variant has plateaued, with slightly below 70,000 new instances reported nationwide. While infections stay decrease than the surge seen final winter because of vaccines, infections have spiked within the southeast U.S. and hospitals in Idaho have been compelled to ration therapy as a result of overloaded ICU facilities.  

After “Spiral,” Rock’s subsequent movie is an untitled challenge directed by David O. Russell and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek and Margot Robbie that’s set for a November 2022 launch. He can be hooked up to direct the Universal comedy “Co-Parenting,” which he co-wrote with Kevin Hart.