Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle, etc.) has revealed that he caught COVID-19 for the second time in “mid-November and ended up in the ER on December 1.” This news comes after he previously battled the disease last February. Keenan said the following about his experience while chatting with “Strombo” on Apple Music Hits:
“Ugly, ugly. Couldn’t breathe. I could barely put two words together without going into a coughing fit that, you know? It ended up kind of also progressing into pneumonia. 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. 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 fuck in.”
[via Blabbermouth]