Tony Shalhoub, Known as Germaphobe Detective 'Monk,’ Reveals He Had COVID-19

Tony Shaloub is best known for his Emmy-Award winning role in “Monk,” in which he plays an obsessive compulsive germaphobe detective. Now, he’s revealing that he and his wife are taking on a “Monk”-like lifestyle after they both battled COVID-19 for several weeks. Matt Damon said that his 21-year-old stepdaughter and her roommates all contracted the virus early in the pandemic, but they’ve since recovered. On an Irish radio, he spoke about how his 2011 film “Contagion” foreshadowed this pandemic.