Influential podcast host Joe Rogan, who has denounced and dismissed coronavirus vaccines on multiple occasions, on Wednesday announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19 after he returned from a series of shows in Florida, where the virus is rampant.

In a video posted to his official Instagram account, Rogan said that he was feeling “very weary” on Saturday following which he started to quarantine and “throughout the night, I got fevers and sweats and I knew what was going on.” The next day he tested positive for COVID-19. He moved to a different part of his house away from his family.

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Although it is unclear if Rogan has vaccinated himself, last spring he was rebuked by federal officials for suggesting on the podcast that young healthy people need not get vaccinations.   

In April, Rogan told listeners that if a 21-year-old asked him if they should get vaccinated, he would suggest they do not.  

“If you’re a healthy person, and you’re exercising all the time, and you’re young, and you’re eating well, like, I don’t think you need to worry about this,” the 54-year-old said.

Later, in an effort to clarify his comments, Rogan said he is “not an anti-vax person” and that he is “not a respected source of information, even for me.”  

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Furthermore, in the video, Rogan went on to describe the medications he had resorted to after his diagnosis. He had taken monoclonal antibodies as well as “vitamin drip”. Meanwhile, he had also taken ivermectin, a deworming veterinary drug that the Food and Drug Administration has warned COVID-19 patients against taking and that has repeatedly been shown as ineffective for them in clinical trials.  

The use of the drug has become popular among fringe and anti-vaccine communities.

He was supposed to play a concert in Nashville, Tennesse, with comic Dave Chappelle on Friday, but he announced in a video on Wednesday that it would be moved until October.