Country rocker Sturgill Simpson has tested positive for COVID-19.

Simpson broke the news on April 11 via Instagram, noting that after touring through Europe and in the Southern U.S. he went to the hospital on in mid-March with “chest pains, fever, and pre-stroke blood pressure levels.”

Simpson goes on to explain, “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 6th my wife and I were both tested after finally finding a free drive-thru testing facility outside a National Guard depot. 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.”

Simpson – who is known for his willingness to speak his mind – closes the message with a critique of the current administration’s handling of the crisis, saying, “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!'”

Before being diagnosed, Simpson pushed a number of dates on his co-headlining tour with Tyler Childers to the fall due to COVID-19 concerns.

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