Trivium's Matt Heafy tests positive for COVID-19: "Thankfully due to being vaccinated it merely feels like a tour cold"

Matt Heafy has shared that he and his family recently contracted COVID-19.

The Trivium frontman reveals that, thanks to having the vaccine, the effects of coronavirus "merely feels like a tour cold", while his father unfortunately contracted COVID-19 without having had the jab and "is now 12 weeks into a very terrible recovery with lung / heart / liver issues".

"Welp," Matt says. "Went from a non-vaccinated person to Ashley (vaccinated) to the kids (unvaccinated) to me (vaccinated).

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"Thankfully due to being vaccinated it merely feels like a tour cold; my dad however got sick without a vaccine and is now 12 weeks into a very terrible recovery with lung / heart / liver issues.

"I outta be good in a day or two. See y’all on stream tomorrow regardless!"

Get well soon, Matt and family!

As he mentioned, the musician will be keeping busy with his Twitch streaming anyway. Via the platform, Matt recently released a solo song produced by Mike Shinoda, and covered Richard Marx… with Richard Marx.

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