a shocking Axios interview in which he expressed a fatalistic reaction to COVID-19's death toll of 1,000 Americans daily."I still can't process that. 'It is what it is,'" Hart continued. "It is unbelievable.
I mean, I want to say to the president, 'Get off your ass, drive 20 blocks, and spend 15 minutes in an ICU with a COVID patient who's dying.
Do that.'"Hart himself was in the ICU when his husband, the chief of the critical care division at Baltimore’s Mercy Medical Center, died Saturday at age 56 surrounded by 20 colleagues.
In his interview with Cooper, Hart revealed why he took off his personal protective equipment — a tragic requirement for those witnessing the hospital deaths of loved ones from the virus — during Costa's final.