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Tool singer Maynard James Keenan revealed that when he was in New Zealand earlier this year he was suffering from COVID-19, a New Zealand doctor told him he did not have it.
Keenan earlier this month revealed that he had the deadly virus when his band came to New Zealand for a show at Spark Arena in late February. A fan tested positive for COVID-19 five days after attending the show.
In that interview it was not clear if he knew it was COVID-19, but now he clarified that he had no idea until later.
“I’m in Australia. We went out to dinner … and immediately the food didn’t taste good,” she told podcast host Joe Rogan. Loss of the sense of smell is often one of the first symptoms of a COVID-19 infection, but that was not known at the time.
“I immediately got sick, then I had to take an international flight the next morning, fly to New Zealand,” he continued, joking that he might have been the first to bring it here (the first real case was about a week earlier).
“So we got there, I was like four days in the hotel. Because we have four days off before the shows. So I was just drinking water, hot showers, taking care of myself, hot tea, trying to get over it and it sucked. But you still didn’t know what , how bad this could have been. If I had known how bad this could have been, I would have been freaking out. “
He went to a doctor who reviewed his symptoms and said he did not have COVID-19, so the band’s show at Spark Arena continued.
“It wasn’t, it wasn’t fun,” Keenan told Rogan. “We had to adjust a little, not put the hard ones.”
