Chris Cuomo shares chest X-ray, gives update on COVID-19 battle: 'I feel better than I deserve'

Chris Cuomo is giving viewers an inside look into his battle with COVID-19.

During Monday's "Cuomo Prime Time," the CNN anchor spoke with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and said he's feeling fine.

"I feel better than I deserve and I now know that I can't just take it from this thing," Cuomo said. "When the fever spikes you just want to curl up in a ball and stay there for the next six, seven hours and you can't. You've got to bundle up your clothes, you've got to start drowning yourself in fluid."

Cuomo, 49, who revealed he was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, encouraged people to fight against the virus.

"You got to walk around, it hurts. You don't want to do it. Everything in your body is telling you not to do it, and it's lying to you and I know that now," Cuomo said. "The more I push myself to do, the better I'm getting so I'm going to take faith in that for now."

The CNN journalist also shared his chest X-ray with viewers, noting he got one done after he felt the virus in his chest.

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Gupta said it didn't appear that Cuomo had pneumonia, which he says is what doctors look for in chest X-rays of COVID-19 patients.

"I have to tell you it is scary to have your lungs go up there and see that stuff and be like 'What is that? What is that like smoke in there?' And they tell you yeah, that's the virus," Cuomo said. "You have to fight to keep it out and I'm doing fine. I don't have pneumonia, but if I want to stay that way, I've got to have some things fall in my favor."

Cuomo has been actively sharing updates about his health since being diagnosed with the virus.

On Friday, he said he's lost a significant amount of weight in a short time span while battling the coronavirus.

"I'm a big guy, I started off at 230 pounds," Cuomo said. "My wife is feeding me like we were still in the dating phase. So it's not like I'm hurting for nutrition. I'm eating and drinking constantly. I'm just sweating it out, and it's the sickness."

He also said he's still suffering from a fever, profuse sweating, headaches and pains in his face.

"Literally my vision in my left eye is a little blurry from pressure, from sinus pressure and some manifestation of the virus," he explained.

Contributing: Sara Moniuszko

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