Actress Sharon Stone blamed “non-mask wearers” for her sister contracting COVID-19 and urged people to wear masks to protect themselves and others.
“My sister Kelly, who already has lupus, now has COVID-19. This is her hospital room. One of you Non-Mask wearers did this,” Stone wrote in a message in Instagram to her more than 2.2 million followers. “She does not have an immune system. The only place she went was the pharmacy. There is no testing in her county unless you are symptomatic, & then it’s 5 day wait for results. Can YOU FACE THIS ROOM ALONE?”
Stone, 62, also said that her grandmother and godmother had died from the coronavirus, which has killed more than 170,000 Americans since the pandemic began.
“Wear a mask! For yourself and others. Please,” she added.
Kelly Stone’s husband, Bruce Singer, has also tested positive for the novel virus and has been hospitalized.
“In Montana, where [Kelly and Bruce] live, you can’t get tested unless you’re symptomatic, and then you don’t get your test results for five days,” Stone wrote. “Also, the people that they came in contact with, like my mother who has had two heart attacks, five stents and a pacemaker in the last five months, couldn’t get a test because she wasn’t symptomatic even though she could’ve been near asymptomatic contact that gave them COVID.”
“The nurses in the hospital that are taking care of them can’t get tested because they don’t have tests to test them with. Those nurses are risking their lives and cannot get tested,” Stone said.
On Friday, Kelly Stone shared a photo of Singer and her from March 13, which was two days before the World Health Organization declared a pandemic.
“This is us,” Kelly Stone captioned in the Instagram post. “Drove to our paradise in Montana. We thought covid wouldn’t and couldn’t find us. No shopping, no parties, barely saw a human. Now fighting for a breath. you don’t want covid.”
Montana has recorded more than 5,700 COVID-19 cases and 82 deaths.