After the death of legendary musician David Crosthrough on January 19, social networks twisted, twisted and turned with wild hypotheses about the cause of his death. Several unnamed social media accounts fueled such a hypothesis by spitting out claims without offering any genuine evidence to back up their claims, as I reported for Forbes at the time. Well, now, someone who with Crosthrough, 81, a time before Crosthrough’s death, was kinder about what had happened. During an interview on Kyle Meredith’s podcast With, Graham Nash, who co-founded the folk-rock band Crosthrough, Stills
Nash told the host the following about Crosby: “I was rehearsing for a performance in Los Angeles with a full band. After 3 days of rehearsals, he felt a little sick. Nash went on to say, “And I had had Covid before, and I still had covid. So he went home and made the decision to take a nap, and he never woke up. But he died in his bed, and that’s fantastic. In January, Crosby’s wife, Jan Dance, said in a statement that Crosby died after a “long illness,” but gave no additional details at the time. This left the door open for some on social media to claim that Covid-19 vaccines were to blame for Crosby’s death, even though there was no genuine evidence that vaccines were involved. In fact, even if Crosby’s circle of relatives had provided an unrelated cause of death in January, anti-vaxxers would likely have figured out a way to blame vaccines.
Nash, of course, knew Crosby better than most people on social media. By 1968, Crosby, Nash and Stephen Stills had shaped Crosby, Stills.
For much of the 2010s, however, Nash and Crosby weren’t exactly the most productive friends. In fact, they looked more like TOOF than friends. On the podcast, Nash indicated that his estrangement “didn’t need to have anything to do with Crosby at all. “But in recent years, they managed to reconcile an era of concord before Crosby’s death.
In fact, Crosby has had his percentage of fitness disorders over the past few decades. This included battles with drugs and alcohol before, receiving a liver transplant in 1994 after suffering from chronic hepatitis C infection, treatment for type 2 diabetes, and cardiac catheterization in 2014. The most sensitive of that, in 2022, Crosby had a fight beyond with Covid0-19. In 2022, she described her experience with Covid-19 in a journalism class and said, “It’s been horrible. COVID is a very. Surely it was horrible. Surely it was unpleasant. . . It’s not to laugh at all. You should avoid it if you can. On the podcast, Nash presented this assessment of Crosby’s life: “I mean, the fact that he got to 81 was incredible. “
Nash went on to say, “But [Crosby’s passing] came here as a surprise. It’s a bit like an earthquake, you know? You have the initial surprise and then you realize that you survived. But those subsequent surprises continued to be transmitted and their duration decreases as it passed.
Nash’s revelation about Crosby’s current war with Covid-19 is a reminder that you can contract Covid-19 even if you’ve already had it. Fights with Covid-19 can also be serious. Having contracted Covid-19 before will not necessarily protect you one hundred percent from a more serious Covid-19 in the future.