Jon Bon Jovi believes his teenage son had a ‘mild version’ of coronavirus
The Bon Jovi frontman has claimed his
17-year-old son Jacob recently came down with a form of COVID-19, and whilst he
took measures to quarantine himself away from the rest of the family –
including siblings Stephanie, 26, Jesse, 25, and Romeo, 15, as well as his
mother Dorothea – his symptoms were not serious.
Speaking to ‘Entertainment Tonight’ via
video chat, Jon said: “The whole family is together, all the kids are here
with us. We’ve been here 15 days now, not that I’m counting. Everyone here,
Jake had a mild version of it just the intestinal kind.”
The ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ hitmaker and his
family took quarantine seriously, and after visiting with a private doctor,
Jacob has begun to feel much better.
Jon explained: “Dorothea created the
quarantine zone, you know, with the laundry room being triaged and no one could
go in there unless they had gloves and a mask and she had a bathrobe on
backwards and different slippers. But we kept him in there until all of the
symptoms had cleared and now he’s a hundred percent.”
And whilst they’re convinced the illness
Jacob had was coronavirus, they have been unable to get a test for the teenager
as it proved “pretty difficult” to get hold of one.
Jon added: “It stemmed from some of
the young guys that we had taken in here that also tested, they were tested and
tested positive and had the main symptoms but they had left, and so we just
followed those same protocols.”
Meanwhile, the ‘It’s My Life’ singer
recently wrote a new song inspired by the coronavirus pandemic called ‘Do What
You Can’, and is asking fans to write the track’s second verse.
He said of the song: “It first of all
goes to show the healing power of music. It shows that kind of community like
in those situations before – like 9/11 or Superstorm Sandy or now this – this
is the time people come together and we shine a light on it and the truth is,
little situations like this are happening every day to somebody across the
country. This is that opportunity for me to show somebody else we are
together.”
