

(Coughlin did not respond to a request for comment sent via Twitter direct message. They informed the two guests scheduled to appear on that evening’s live broadcast-Libby Emmons, the editor in chief of the right-wing Canadian site The Post Millennial and Seamus Coughlin, a YouTuber and cartoonist-of the result but decided to proceed with the show anyway. 27 and prior to the airing of that night’s live broadcast, an unnamed employee of his tested positive after taking a home test.

On Wednesday morning, Pool broke his silence and unpacked the grueling ordeal. Initially, Pool downplayed his symptoms, saying it was “mostly just a headache,” and “doesn’t seem serious.” A guest scheduled to appear on co-host Ian Crossland’s separate YouTube channel also announced a cancellation on Monday. The sole information Pool provided came in the form of brief notes posted to his YouTube channel’s “community” tab: “Feeling a little under the weather,” he wrote on Thursday. One poster in another forum asked if he was dead, and 4chan trolls mocked up a fake article reporting his demise. 28, there have been multiple threads posted in the Tim Pool subreddit about his health.

Since his three channels went dark on Oct. He did so after speaking to Joe Rogan, who fought off his own case of COVID-19 with a battery of treatments the podcaster similarly described as the “kitchen sink.” Rogan subsequently offered to pay Pool’s medical bills, Pool claimed in his Wednesday video. When his condition worsened over the weekend, he received a “kitchen sink” of medications, as Pool put it, including ivermectin, an unproven treatment that experts have warned against using. Pool, 35, who has not been vaccinated, is well on the road to recovery. During the combination comedy, musical, and Q&A show, parts of which were shown in a paywall-protected video, Pool’s producer gave a shout-out to people who’d refused to get vaccinated, encouraging them to hold fast. The virus has been spread to multiple members of his media company, who began testing positive a week or so after Pool hosted a well-attended indoor event at a bar and grill in nearby Charles Town, West Virginia. Tim Pool, one of the more prolific and popular political YouTubers on the right, has come down with a bad case of COVID-19, as he described it in a video posted Wednesday morning.
