‘Sid tested positive for covid-19. He is doing ok’: Founder of women’s club The Wing Audrey Gelman reveals her six-month-old baby has coronavirus
- Audrey Gelman posted a photo online in which she appears to be be in hospital wearing a mask and surgical gloves with her son, the New York Post reported
- The news comes after increased reports of children contracting coronavirus
- The members-only women’s club co-founder and chief executive wrote on Instagram: ‘This morning we learned that Sid tested positive for Covid-19’
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The CEO of members-only women’s club The Wing has said that her six-month-old baby tested positive for the coronavirus.
Audrey Gelman posted a photo on Instagram on Sunday in which she appears to be in hospital wearing a mask and surgical gloves with her son, the New York Post reported.
In the post, which appears to have since been removed from social media, The Wing co-founder wrote: ‘This morning we learned that sid tested positive for covid-19. he is doing ok and we are monitoring him closely. reach out to everyone in your life and tell them you love them.’
The diagnosis would make the baby among the youngest in the US to have been diagnosed with the virus.
Gelman and her husband Genius co-founder Ilan Zechory welcomed baby Sidney in September last year.
Audrey Gelman was reported to have written on Instagram: ‘This morning we learned that sid tested positive for covid-19.’ She urged people to ‘reach out to everyone in your life and tell them you love them’
The Wing CEO and co-founder said that her baby Sidney ‘is doing ok and we are monitoring him closely’
Gelman posted a photo on Instagram on Sunday in which she appears to be be in hospital wearing a mask and surgical gloves with her son Sidney
Gelman and her husband Genius co-founder Ilan Zechory welcomed baby Sidney in September last year
The news comes after increased reports of young children contracting coronavirus.
A 12-year-old girl with no pre-existing conditions is on a ventilator and ‘fighting for her life’ in an Atlanta hospital after she tested positive for the coronavirus.
The girl from Georgia, who was only identified as Emma, was diagnosed with pneumonia on March 15.
The entrepreneur is a childhood friend of actress and writer Lena Dunham, who has described her as the inspiration for the character Marnie in the HBO show ‘Girls’
The news comes after increased reports of young children contracting coronavirus
A 7-month-old baby in South Carolina tested positive for the coronavirus this week.
Emmett Doster tested positive on Tuesday. ‘He woke up from a nap running a fever so we were going to play it out and see, but my mom tested positive for the virus as well,’ Courtney Doster, the baby’s mother, said.
Gelman launched The Wing with Lauren Kassan in October 2016 and has described it as a ‘safe, affirming professional network’where professional women can relax.
The entrepreneur is a childhood friend of actress and writer Lena Dunham, who has described her as the inspiration for the character Marnie in the HBO show ‘Girls.’
Members of the exclusive women’s club hit out in December after the company said that men are allowed inside following a discrimination lawsuit.
Female members of The Wing – which has properties across the US and in London – described male guests at the club as ‘losers’.
One said male visitors display a ‘classic patriarchal entitlement complex’ by wanting to be inside the clubhouses, which are billed as a space for female empowerment.
The Wing was founded in 2016 and initially promoted itself as a women-only space, but in January 2019 it clarified that stance following a $12 million discrimination lawsuit brought by 53-year-old James Pietrangelo in 2018.