The country music star revealed on April 11 that nearly a month after first exhibiting symptoms for COVID-19, he was finally able to get a test and was told. Simpson explained that it was really difficult to get tested in an Instagram post he wrote on April 12.
He began by sharing that he had been on tour in Western Europe for two weeks before continuing in the U.S. up until March 12. The next day, he said his wife took him to their local hospital ER"due to chest pains, fever, and pre-stroke blood pressure levels." "I spent an hour listening to a 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 even though I was told by two nurses that I was the first person their hospital had walk in requesting to be tested," he wrote.
By April 10, the star recieved a call from the Nashville CDC and found out he was positive, while his wife's test came back 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," he continued.
Don't care