I could barely put two words together without going into a coughing fit
Photo: Carrie Musgrave
Published Feb 04, 2021
In October, Maynard James Keenan revealed he caught COVID-19 in late February of last year, and the Tool singer has now shared that he contracted the virus a second time before 2020 was out.
Speaking with George Stroumboulopoulos for Apple Music, Keenan shared that his second bout with coronavirus was Ugly, ugly. Couldn t breathe, recalling how he became reinfected mid-November and ended up in the ER on December 1. 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, he continued. 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. Ther