Sturgill Simpson Says He’s Tested Positive for COVID-19 – Rolling Stone

Sturgill Simpson says he’s tested optimistic for COVID-19. In a lengthy Instagram submit, the Sound and Fury artist writes that he got the diagnosis on Friday, after with regards to a month of no longer exhibiting symptoms.

That wasn’t the case in early March, nonetheless. Three days after taking half in Charleston, South Carolina, on his A Neutral correct Stumble on’n Tour with Tyler Childers, Simpson became in a Nashville emergency room with chest difficulty, a fever, and what he says were “pre-stroke blood stress ranges.” He posted a photograph of himself on a clinical institution mattress carrying a conceal over his nostril and mouth.

Simpson expressed his alarm at being unable to be tested for COVID-19 and returned house. On April sixth, he and his wife went to a power-by map of trying out facility in Alabama and got their outcomes four days later. His wife tested negative.

The Kentucky native, who says he’s contagious and now in quarantine, criticized President Trump and the U.S. authorities’s response to the ongoing coronavirus disaster.  “As a minimal our Executive appointed project force headed by a man who does no longer utter in science is in opposition to mass trying out and now we have a second project force within the works to ‘start The US aid up for industry’!”

Closing week, Simpson mourned the inability of his buddy John Prine, who died Tuesday from problems related to COVID-19. “There is so important I by no manner said easiest because of the I didn’t are searching to trouble you with it. After all you by no manner requested to be ‘John Prine.’ There is so important I’ll by no manner gather to claim now,” he wrote. “You rang a bell in my memory so important of my Grandfather it trouble customarily. I by no manner told you that.” Simpson’s tour with Childers is tentatively scheduled to renew April 20th in Omaha, Nebraska.