Alice Cooper on contracting coronavirus: “I was just beat up”

Alice Cooper has delved into his experience battling coronavirus at the end of 2020.

Back in February, Cooper revealed that both he and his wife contracted the virus in a post encouraging fans to get vaccinated.

“We already had Covid but we’re getting vaccinated anyway,” Cooper said at the time. “Everyone out here has been really nice and you don’t feel like you’re in danger of anything. So come on out. If you haven’t been vaccinated, come on out.”

Now, in a new interview with Good Day Rochester, Cooper has further illuminated his experience with the virus. “All it really did with me was it knocked me out,” he revealed. “For three weeks, I felt like I went 12 rounds with Roberto Duran; I was just beat up.

“And then every day, you feel a little bit better, then you feel a little bit better, feel a little bit better, and after about a month, you start feeling pretty good. And so now I’m a walking antibody.”

Cooper previously spoke to AZCentral about the side-effects he experienced after contracting the virus,  “We didn’t have to go to the hospital or anything like that. But I lost 15 pounds. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t eat,” he said.

In May last year, Alice Cooper released his single ‘Don’t Give Up’, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “Our enemy is a cold, indiscriminate monster,” he sings in the track. “It doesn’t care if you’re old or newborn. It exists to kill. You and I are nothing to it. It has no heart, or soul, or conscience. Do we fear it? Yeah. Do we cower before it? Hell no. We’re the blood-and-guts human race, and we win.” Check it out below.

Listen to ‘Don’t Give Up’ by Alice Cooper

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