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Now Chris Cuomo’s teenage son Mario has coronavirus

CNN host Chris Cuomo’s 14-year-old son, Mario, has contracted the coronavirus — following the infections of his father and mother, according to the family.

Chris Cuomo announced his own positive test for COVID-19 about three weeks ago, and he revealed his wife’s diagnosis about two weeks later.

Cristina, in turn, posted about Mario’s illness on Instagram Wednesday.

“This virus has created a different version of me. My hope is to be stronger, healthier, smarter about the virus at large,” Cristina wrote. “After 10 days of ups and downs, feeling good one-day and terrible the next, I am now working hard to get my son, Mario, through the virus.”

Chris Cuomo said he ended his quarantine on Monday night, posting to Instagram a video of the moment he could “finally” emerge from the basement of his family’s Southampton home where he isolated himself. He announced that night that his wife was also cleared to end her quarantine.

But over Easter weekend, Cuomo was out visiting a property he is developing in East Hampton when he got into a heated argument with a 65-year-old resident out riding a bike.

The man tried to call out Cuomo for not following his quarantine.

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On this 50th anniversary of Earth Day, show kindness toward our planet and every creature who inhabits it, as the transcendent photographer, adventurer, preservationist and raconteur Peter Beard advised us. My old friend’s recent death offers an eerily timely punctuation on this virus and a reminder that we can’t forget to protect one another, and the animals that roam the Earth. 🌏🌏🌏 This virus has created a different version of me. My hope is to be stronger, healthier, smarter about the virus at large. 💙💙💙After 10 days of ups and downs, feeling good one-day and terrible the next, I am now working toward getting my son, Mario, through the virus. My heart hurts more than my head over his infection. This virus does not discriminate. While kids are more resilient, they can suffer same severity of symptoms. I’m applying a modified version of my remedies for his protocol with a focus on lots of vitamins. Since his sense of smell and taste have disappeared, I am feeding him healthy foods that I normally can’t get him to touch. I kept a diary of the past week of my road to recovery. 🙏 Link in bio, as they say.

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“[Cuomo] said, ‘Who the hell are you?! I can do what I want!’” the man, David, told The Post last week. “He just ranted, screaming, ‘I’ll find out who you are!’

“I said to him, ‘Your brother is the coronavirus czar, and you’re not even following his rules — unnecessary travel,’ ” David said, referring to Cuomo’s brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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Chris Cuomo’s son, Mario, is named after Chris’ late father, who was New York’s governor for three terms from 1983 to 1994.