Tool and Puscifer frontman Maynard James Keenan revealed that he ended up in the emergency room last fall after contracting COVID-19 for a second time. The artist discussed his condition alongside his recent work with Puscifer during an appearance on the STROMBO Show on Apple Music Hits.
Keenan stated that he contracted COVID-19 a second time in mid-November 2020 and ended up in the hospital again by early December. He spoke about the difficulties of having COVID-19, as many other people were struggling to have beds and ventilators. He eventually decided to treat the symptoms at home after doctors equipped him with some supplies.
“So, if I stayed in the hospital, they said, ‘Okay, we can keep you here, but you’re fighting 12 other people for a bed and a ventilator we don’t have, so what do you want to do?’ I’m like, ‘Well, I need to breathe and I need to sleep.’ So, you’re just treating symptoms at that point,” Keenan was quoted in a press release. “There’s nothing you can do other than treat the symptom, so for a real cough medicine, not the crap over-the-counter and then like an inhaler, and some antibiotics to fight the pneumonia and strap the f*** in.”
Last October Keenan revealed that he continues to suffer lung damage as a result of his first bout of COVID-19, which he was diagnosed with back in February. According to mxdwn interview with Puscifer’s Carina Round, Keenan already recorded his vocals before he began work on the group’s 2020 release Existential Reckoning.
Puscifer held a COVID-19 safe live stream in Arcosanti, Arizona last fall and released video performances of “Bedlamite” and “Fake Affront” following the show.
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