{"id":805640,"date":"2020-03-24T19:16:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T01:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=972713"},"modified":"2020-03-24T19:16:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T01:16:22","slug":"jackson-browne-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/jackson-browne-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Browne Tests Positive for Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jackson Browne<\/a> was suspicious that something was not right when he started feeling ill in recent weeks. \u201cAs soon as I had a small cough and a temperature, I tested [for COVID-19<\/a>],\u201d he says. The Rock Hall of Fame inductee tells Rolling Stone<\/em> that he has tested positive for the coronavirus<\/a> and is currently recuperating at his Los Angeles home. \u201cMy symptoms are really pretty mild, so I don\u2019t require any kind of medication and certainly not hospitalization or anything like that,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

The 71-year-old musician isn\u2019t sure where he got it, but he suspected his recent trip to New York for the annual Love Rocks NYC<\/a> benefit, which also featured Cyndi Lauper, Dave Matthews, Warren Haynes, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, may have been the source. \u201cSo many people that have it aren\u2019t going to be tested,\u201d he says. \u201cThey don\u2019t have symptoms, but they might have it and might be able to pass it on. That\u2019s what younger readers need to understand: they need to take part in the global response to stop the spread. That means not going anywhere, not getting into contact with anybody, not seeing anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Browne spoke with Rolling Stone<\/em> about the pandemic, how he\u2019s handling his time in quarantine and what advice he has for others who aren\u2019t taking it seriously.<\/p>\n

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How are you feeling?<\/strong>
The prognosis for what to do once you test positive is pretty much the same as if you don\u2019t test positive, which is to stay put. And stay self-quarantined. Don\u2019t expose anybody. Don\u2019t go anywhere.<\/p>\n

I quarantined immediately upon feeling sick. It was before the mandatory quarantine orders were issued, because you don\u2019t know if you had it or not. I\u2019m in the middle of trying to call everyone I know to discuss with them how they are feeling and whether or not they have symptoms. You have to assume you have it. You need to assume that you in some way could very easily pass it to someone else.<\/p>\n

The other thing is if you test positive, you just get over it if your body can handle it. If you contract it and your body fights it off, you\u2019ll have the antibodies and you\u2019ll start contributing to the herd immunity. The idea that everyone is going to eventually wind up having these antibodies in common is mysterious to me. It\u2019s obvious that the one thing you can do to make a difference in everyone\u2019s chances is to quarantine yourself.<\/p>\n

There seem to be a lot of younger people that aren\u2019t afraid of getting it.<\/strong>
I think what young people need to know everywhere [is] they may be less likely, but they have to treat it. They can spread this disease by not taking it seriously. They can spread it to somebody by presuming they won\u2019t have any adverse effects themselves, and they can therefore keep partying and going where they want to go. It\u2019s just not true. They have to understand that everybody is part of the response to this.<\/p>\n

I hope that nobody has got it bad. You just don\u2019t know who\u2019s got a strong immune system and who doesn\u2019t. I was told today by my doctor there\u2019s a 19-year-old on a ventilator in Santa Monica. There\u2019s no guarantee that because you\u2019re young, you\u2019re not going to be affected by this. The thing we should all be very aware of is by traveling around the city and moving this germ from place to place, inadvertently, you are risking the lives of everybody, including the most vulnerable, people who have asthma or people who are really old.<\/p>\n

How long have you been home for?
<\/strong>It\u2019s about 10 days. It\u2019s not that long, but it feels like forever. [Laughs<\/em>] It seems like a long time. I\u2019m presuming I got this flying back and forth to New York to do [the] Love Rocks show at the Beacon. And now it turns out that several people who were at that show have tested positive. I\u2019m going to try and get in touch with everybody and keep talking with them.<\/p>\n

I feel lucky that I\u2019m not really badly affected. I guess I\u2019ve got a really strong immune system. There\u2019s so much we don\u2019t know. The one thing you can do is not go anywhere, not show up anywhere. Now I wish I hadn\u2019t gone to New York and done this benefit. I think to myself, \u201cHow much simpler would it have been had I just called in and said, \u201cNo, I\u2019m not going to travel on a cross-country flight and spend two days in New York with all these people that are singing all over the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t have known that.<\/strong>
I didn\u2019t know it then. There was already a question of being careful and saying, \u201cI\u2019ll bump elbows and not shake hands and won\u2019t hug anybody. I won\u2019t behave like that at this show.\u201d But still, you\u2019re in close quarters and you\u2019re breathing the same air. They are swabbing the mics, but somebody in the crew has it. For all I know, he got it from me. I could have got it from the crew member that has it or he could have got it from me. I don\u2019t know. I traveled on an airplane to get there.<\/p>\n

How are you keeping yourself occupied at home?<\/strong>
Well, I\u2019m having a lot of really great conversations with friends of mine who I\u2019ve been too busy to catch up with in a long time. There\u2019s that. I\u2019m trying to keep track of everyone in my family and all my friends. When you calm down and start thinking about other people and their vulnerabilities\u2026I know people all over the place that normally I\u2019m too busy to keep track of. But now I\u2019m able to call and see how they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m listening to music. I\u2019m watching some shows. I\u2019m spending a lot of time reading all these op-eds. There\u2019s a bunch of medical bulletins and stories in the New York Times<\/em>. When you called earlier, I was listening to the press conference with Governor Cuomo. It\u2019s all really good, important information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I think you testing positive will definitely help people take this more seriously.<\/strong>
It\u2019s important for us all to be pretty forthcoming about what we\u2019re going through. Our experiences will be helpful for others to know. I don\u2019t think my case is that important, but it might be helpful to know that some people don\u2019t get this really bad. The idea that we can contribute to the overall herd immunity. You get over this as quickly as you can and be available to help others.<\/p>\n

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Jackson Browne was suspicious that something was not right when he started feeling ill in recent weeks. \u201cAs soon as I had a small cough and a temperature, I tested [for COVID-19],\u201d he says. The Rock Hall of Fame inductee tells Rolling Stone that he has tested positive for the coronavirus and is currently recuperating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 11:05:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}