Kim Kardashian arranged a private Zoom call with Fauci and dozens of other
Toward the beginning of the pandemic, dozens of A-listers had the privilege of a private Zoom call with Dr. Anthony Fauci to ask him anything they wanted about the novel coronavirus.
The stars asked many of the same questions other people would ask, Fauci told CNN. They wanted to know about masks and social distancing and whether it was safe to eat take-out food.
Kim Kardashian was on the call. So was Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Orlando Bloom, Katy Perry, 2 Chainz, Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk, according to Fauci and two others familiar with the call.
“It was a whole bunch of movie stars and some sports figures and they wanted to know about what they could do to stay safe, about wearing masks and avoiding crowds,” Fauci said. “I was impressed by the questions they asked, by their level of sophistication.”
Fauci said he did the Zoom call, which lasted about an hour, because the celebrities had “megaphones” and “could get the word out about staying safe.”
“Each of them has enormous numbers of followers on their social media accounts. I could say to them, for example, it’s important to wear a mask, and they get on their accounts and say ‘wear a mask’ and it goes out to an additional couple of million people,” said Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force.
The call took place at the end of April and included about 36 celebrities, musicians and athletes, according to Fauci and the others familiar with the call.
The Zoom meeting was the brainchild of Kim Kardashian, according to the sources and a person close to the Kardashian family.
“We need to get Kylie Jenner and social media influencers out there, in helping folks understand that look, this is serious, this is absolutely serious,” Adams said on the show. “People are dying.”
That motivated Kardashian to take it a step further, according to the source close to her family. She put together a list of other celebrities and contacted Fauci’s office.
“She wanted to speak with someone, to ask questions, so she could spread accurate information because there were so many inaccuracies those first few months,” the source said.
Fauci said among the questions was one from “Black Swan” star Kunis about whether he eats take-out food.
“I told her…
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