globalnews.ca
63%
731
Sammy Hagar clarifies remarks about playing concerts amid COVID-19 pandemic
Sammy Hagar has clarified some contentious remarks he made recently about feeling “comfortable playing a show before there’s a vaccine” in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, so long as reported cases started “declining.”The former Van Halen singer took to Instagram on Thursday, saying that when he made the “radical statement,” he was simply “optimistic” that he would soon return to the stage because he thought the curve of novel coronavirus cases “was beginning to flatten.”Hagar, 72, noted that while his controversial interview with Rolling Stone was published earlier this week, it was actually conducted early last month — when he believed “things were starting to look up” for the U.S.“I did that interview May 8th, when we were