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Sturgill Simpson tests positive for coronavirus a month after doctors refused to diagnose him despite symptoms

The country singer says he went to a Nashville hospital after developing symptoms for the disease but the doctors there told him he "did not fit testing criteria"
PUBLISHED APR 11, 2020
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American singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson shared on Instagram on Saturday, April 11, that he has tested positive for COVID-19. But that wasn’t all.

Simpson wrote in a lengthy post, “Ok since they are in short supply these days here are some facts... We were on tour in Western Europe for two weeks late Jan /early Feb..then up and down the southeast/eastern US playing arena shows mid-Feb to early March. We played Charleston, SC on March 10 and they pulled the plug on our tour March 12 and I returned home.”

“This photo,” he said of the accompanying photograph of him lying in a Nashville hospital bed, wearing a mask, “was taken at 9 am on March 13th when my wife took me to our local hospital ER due to chest pains, fever, and pre-stroke blood pressure levels.”

He said the doctors there refused to test him for COVID-19, “I spent an hour listening to a (highly condescending) Doctor refuse to test me because I ‘did not fit testing criteria’ and tell me why it was impossible that I had contracted the virus due to its extreme rarity and that it was not in western Europe yet during that same period (which we now know is incorrect) even though I was told by two nurses that I was the first person their hospital had walk in, requesting to be tested.”

Almost one month later on April 6, both he and his wife were tested after “finally finding a free drive-thru testing facility outside a National Guard depot in Alabama”.

He further said, “Yesterday on Friday, April 10th, after almost one month without any symptoms, I received a call from the Nashville CDC stating that my test resulted in a positive detection for COVID-19. My wife (who has been by my side since Europe) tested negative.”

“I should also add that the CDC nurse I spoke to yesterday told me that it reacts differently in a case by case basis and the White House briefings and the information they are providing is basically pure speculation causing fear and that the only thing anybody knows is that we don’t really know much yet,” wrote Simpson, adding, “All I know is I first felt symptoms a month ago yet I'm still positive and contagious and now on quarantine in the dojo until April 19th and really wishing I’d taken my wife’s advice and put a bathroom in the floor plans… live and learn.”

Taking a dig at the Trump administration and its handling of this international health crisis, he ended the post with, “But hey, at least our Government-appointed task force headed by a man who does not believe in science is against mass testing and we now have a second task force in the works to ‘open America back up for business’! Dick Daddy out.”

The Washington Post reported on April 10 that the Trump administration was pushing to reopen much of the country by May. Behind closed doors, the report said, President Trump had sought a strategy for resuming business activity by May 1. In phone calls with outside advisers, Trump has even reportedly suggested trying to reopen much of the country before the end of this month.

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