Howard Stern Gets COVID-19 for the First Time, Reveals His Experience

Howard Stern is opening up about coronavirus.

The 69-year-old radio host was absent from his SiriusXM show last week because he finally got COVID-19 for the first time.

He explained his absence on Monday’s episode (January 8), saying: “I took a sick day and I’m still sick, you can still hear it in my voice.”

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“We were supposed to be back last week. We weren’t because I got COVID-19,” he revealed.

“I just want to announce something. COVID is really bad,” he added. “You do not want COVID. Oh f–k.”

“Man, I went through hell … I’ve really never been this sick.”

He thanked the doctors and scientists who had worked on a vaccine as well.

“What a wallop this thing is -– can you imagine if we didn’t have the vaccine?” he asked.

The last time the notorious germaphobe took a sick day was back in May 2017.

Last September, Howard admitted that his paranoia over getting COVID-19 had caused arguments between him and his wife, Beth Stern.

“I’m going crazy with this. My wife yelled at me last night. We got into a fight…you know how paranoid I am about getting COVID. I haven’t gotten it, and I’m pretty safe, and I really don’t want to get it.”

“And if woke means I can’t get behind Trump, which is what I think it means, or that I support people who want to be transgender or I’m for the vaccine, dude, call me woke as you f–king want,” he said during the rant.

Another host also had to delay their show’s taping after getting COVID-19.