Jeremih Transferred Out of ICU Amid COVID-19 Battle

4 min readNov 23, 2020

The R&B singer had reportedly been on a ventilator in a Chicago hospital while battling the novel coronavirus.

Jeremih, who was hospitalized due to complications of COVID-19, has been moved from the ICU as he recovers.

According to a statement obtained by Billboard on Saturday (Nov. 21) from a spokesperson for Jeremih’s family and team, “Jeremih has been transferred out of ICU. He will spend the rest of his recovery time in a regular hospital room. The true healing begins. Thank you all for your continued prayers and wishes.”

The R&B singer had reportedly been on a ventilator in a Chicago hospital while battling the novel coronavirus.

Earlier in the week, a representative for Jeremih’s family told CNN that the virus had “viciously attacked his body,” and that they wanted to remind others that “COVID-19 is real and not to be taken lightly. It’s important for people infected to quarantine and let their families and friends know ASAP. There’s no shame in contracting COVID-19, and people that have it need to be responsible and considerate of others.”

“Please if you can take a second to pray for my friend Jeremih, he is like a brother to me and he’s ill right now,” Chance the Rapper wrote on Twitter last Saturday afternoon (Nov. 14) when the news of Jeremih’s condition first broke. “I believe in the healing power of Jesus so if you can for me please please say a prayer over him.”

“pray for my boy Jeremih he’s not doing good this covid shit is real,” 50 Cent said on the same day.

‘Shawn Mendes: In Wonder’: Film Review

In his Netflix documentary, Canadian wunderkind crooner Shawn Mendes offers a behind-the-scenes view of humble stardom.

Shawn Mendes, the 22-year-old Canadian folk-pop singer with the velour trill, is a bard of puppy love. Throughout his prolific oeuvre — three studio albums since 2015 — the male ingénue guilelessly croons about budding romance and sweeping passion and blossoming youth like a modern-day Romeo hopping from muse to muse. “I can’t write one song that’s not about you!” he serenades in “If I Can’t Have You,” his infectiously percussive 2019 single. “Can’t drink without thinkin’ about you! Is it too late to tell you that everything means nothing if I can’t have you?” His songs are as peppy and mellifluous as his persona is honeyed and nonthreatening.

Wunderkind Mendes rose to prominence in the post-Bieber era of democratized stardom, acquiring a dedicated fan base of predominantly young girls in his early teen years after posting his musical self-recordings on Vine. (A lifetime ago for the youthful singer was only just 2013 for the rest of us hoary crones.) Since then, he’s evolved his soulful teeny-bopper brand, sprouting from a swoopy-haired boy with a guitar and a falsetto into a savvy young man who will happily allow a camera crew to record him being “contemplative” in the shower, bare pecs and all.

The Netflix documentary Shawn Mendes: In Wonder glided over me like a lilac cloud and when it was done, I wasn’t sure I had watched anything at all. Neither a rousing concert film nor a juicy “insider’s peek” chronicle of fame, In Wonder may be best described as pillow-soft agitprop, an extended commercial inculcating you into the Mendesverse ahead of his new album set to drop next month. (Both Mendes and his manager Andrew Gertler are listed as executive producers in the credits, which tells you more about the film’s intent than any single scene.)

Lacking focus, tension or narrative, In Wonder follows Mendes via introspective voiceover and trifling behind-the-scenes footage as he zooms through world tours and Toronto homecomings. I’m not even sure the audience ever gets to hear one of his songs in full here. Instead, we’re peppered with brief snippets of Mendes rehearsing or developing a new tune or duetting with pop-star girlfriend Camila Cabello in a venue bathroom. Mendes is winsome. This film is stultifying.

Jeremih Transferred Out of ICU Amid COVID-19 Battle

The R&B singer had reportedly been on a ventilator in a Chicago hospital while battling the novel coronavirus.

‘Shawn Mendes: In Wonder’: Film Review

In his Netflix documentary, Canadian wunderkind crooner Shawn Mendes offers a behind-the-scenes view of humble stardom.

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