Hoda Kotb Has the Flu, Will Miss 'Today' Show for a Few Days

NBC News has confirmed that a staff member who had been diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus has passed away.

The Today show co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb and other NBC News employees are sharing touching tributes to their late colleague Larry Edgeworth, who died at age 61 on Thursday after testing positive for the novel coronavirus. The company's chairman, Andy Lack, announced his death in an email to staff members on Friday.

Apple TV has put a smile on “Stranger Things” fans’ faces amid the ongoing coronavirus news.

NEW YORK -- Working at home on Wednesday was a little more involved than a laptop and cellphone for “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie.

The  show must go on, despite another one of its top personalities going into self isolation. Savannah Guthrie revealed Wednesday that she was working from home after coming down with a sore throat.

Savannah Guthrie is working from home today. The journalist is co-anchoring the Today show from her basement today after coming down with "a mild sore throat and runny nose." During the broadcast, Guthrie's co-anchor Hoda Kotb said she missed her "partner in crime." "Well now we're really socially distancing aren't we, Hoda?" Guthrie asked.

Savannah Guthrie, 48, is taking every precaution she can after a Today show staffer tested positive for COVID-19 aka the coronavirus. The anchor shared a message to her Instagram page on Mar. 17 that revealed she’ll be anchoring the NBC show from her home after she started suffering from “a mild sore throat and runny nose”, which could possibly be symptoms of the virus.

Safety first! Savannah Guthrie announced that she is switching things up starting Wednesday, March 18, when it comes to her hosting duties for the Today show.

Today hosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb wanted viewers to know that they are taking every precaution possible amid the COVID-19 pandemic. During the March 17 telecast of the NBC morning show, Savannah revealed, “Craig [Melvin, 40] and Al [Roker, 65] are out once again.” The host further explained to viewers, “We’re just being super, super cautious.

Al Roker is not letting the quarantine slow him down. The “Today” show co-host appeared remotely from his home to deliver the weather to audiences after isolating himself from the NBC morning show, where a staffer on “3rd Hour” tested positive for coronavirus.

Al Roker is not letting the quarantine slow him down. The  show co-host appeared remotely from his home to deliver the weather to audiences after isolating himself from the NBC morning show, where a staffer on  tested positive for coronavirus. 

NBC News will feature taped segments during the 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. hours of “Today,” according to a person familiar with the matter, while co-anchors Al Roker and Craig Melvin remain at home, the latest change to some of TV’s best-known news programming in the wake of the spread of the coronavirus around the nation.

A staffer on the third hour of NBC's Today show has tested positive for the coronavirus. NBC News employees learned of their colleague's diagnosis late Sunday, and Monday, hosts Craig Melvin and Al Roker took the morning off from Todayout of an abundance of caution as NBC News traces their contacts.

A Today Show staffer has tested positive for coronavirus, Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb confirmed during the show on March 16. The co-anchors practiced social distancing by sitting several feet apart at their co-anchor desk on the show, and they made the announcement that two of their colleagues, Al Roker and Craig Melvin, would be taking the morning off due to the news of the diagnosis on-set.

The Coronavirus pandemic is quickly sweeping through New York City and the Today show is the latest to be effected. One of the staffers in the third hour of the show has been diagnosed after having “mild symptoms.”

The “Today” show has been hit with its first case of COVID-19.

By Denise Petski

On the Monday broadcast of NBC’s “Today,” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie told viewers that a staffer who works on the third hour of the morning show has the novel coronavirus, prompting the network to take co-hosts Craig Melvin and Al Roker off air for the time being.

Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday said “irresponsible rhetoric” is what has been coming from people who have downplayed the seriousness of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak.

Colin Hanks is speaking out about Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson's health. The actor took to social media on Thursday morning to share an update on his dad and Wilson following their announcement that they've tested positive for Coronavirus.