Larry Gatlin Tests Positive For COVID-19 Days After Receiving Vaccine

Larry Gatlin has contracted COVID-19, days after getting his second shot of the Moderna vaccine.

On Friday (March 12), the 72-year-old country crooner confirmed his positive diagnosis with Fox News. What’s more, Gatlin says he almost went an entire calendar year without coming down with the wide-spreading disease.

As the Gatlin Brothers band member explained to the news outlet, he received positive results from two rapid COVID-19 tests on March 8 and March 9. He’d just gotten vaccinated on March 4.

"I made it 361 days without getting COVID-19," the “All the Gold in California” singer-songwriter told Fox News. "Then, I finally get it four days after getting my second dose of Moderna. What are the odds?"

Gatlin says he feels “fortunate” to be doing OK, and has since only experienced common COVID-19 symptoms like "chest pressure, cough, body aches, drainage" and feeling "tired."

"Folks, I feel like I have a cold, and not even a bad cold at that. I even hit a few golf balls before dinner,” the performer told Fox News. "At this moment I feel like Lou Gehrig when he said, 'Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.’”

Gatlin is one of the latest country stars to be impacted by COVID-19. In February, Garth Brooks’ wife, Trisha Yearwood, also contracted the disease while the couple was quarantining together.

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