
“We are still learning more about COVID-19.” “Based on what we know from similar viruses, some reinfections are expected. “In general, reinfection means a person was infected (got sick) once, recovered, and then later became infected again,” the CDC explains at its website, cdc.gov. There’s still lung damage.”Īccording to the Centers for Disease Control, cases of reinfection with COVID-19 have been reported, but remain rare. … I had to go through some major medications to undo the residual effects. “I’m still dealing with the residual effects,” he told Arizona Republic reporter Ed Masley. In October, Keenan revealed that he originally contracted COVID-19 last February. The news was reported in Billboard, People and Variety. He said doctors told him that if he stayed in the hospital he would be fighting “12 other people for a bed and a ventilator,” so he said he went home with antibiotics and cough medicine and rode out the virus. … It ended up kind of also progressing into pneumonia.” “I could barely put two words together without going into a coughing fit. Couldn’t breathe,” the Grammy Award winner said.

Keenan, 56, who has lived in northern Arizona since the mid-1990s, told interviewer George Stroumboulopoulos on Apple Music Hits that he ended up in an emergency room after a second infection in mid-November. Ravenna native Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of the rock bands Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer, has revealed that he survived two bouts with COVID-19.
