Brian May details ‘terrible’ Covid-19 battle as he begs fans to get vaccinated
In a series of Instagram posts and videos, the 74-year-old documented how he has been affected by the coronavirus over the past few days.
On Instagram over the weekend, May said that he and his wife, Anita Dobson, recently decided to go for a birthday lunch with some friends.
Guitarist Queen then sent a direct message to “several of you who haven’t had it” – related to contracting the virus – about how he’s been since testing positive. count. He described a few days as “terrible”. and said it was like having “the worst flu you can imagine.”
May says he’s almost used Instagram at his worst to show his followers how “pathetic” he looks and feels, but he worries it will “scare people off”. scared”. He told fans that, for a while, he “couldn’t get out of bed” and was “flooded” with flu symptoms.
Towards the end of the video, May turns her attention directly to the unvaccinated person and says: “There are a lot of people in the hospital right now who haven’t been stabbed by people who are at the edge of life and death.” He added that he didn’t think he would recover as well as he didn’t because he had been stabbed three times.
“I beg you and beg you to go and get stabbed,” the musician told fans.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday said the UK is experiencing “an increase in Omicron cases across the country”, with “a fairly strong increase in hospital admissions in London.”
The UK reported its second-highest daily number of Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic on Monday, at 91,743.