Ordinarily, 50 Cent‘s Instagram is house to trolls and jokes. But on Saturday, he resolved to remind us that the pandemic is nevertheless gripping the nation just after revealing that R&B star Jeremih is at the moment battling COVID-19. 

“pray for my boy @jeremih he’s not executing fantastic this covid shit is genuine,” 50 captioned a photograph of himself and the singer. He goes on to say Jeremih is in the intense treatment unit at an unnamed clinic in his hometown of Chicago.

50 Cent isn’t the only entertainer to validate Jeremih’s ailment. Fellow Chicagoan and regular collaborator Hitmaka also questioned his Instagram followers to pray for Jeremih as he fights the coronavirus. 

“I need anyone to pray for my brother @jeremih. This message is posted with his mother’s blessings,” he wrote. “This information is posted with his moms blessings.” Artists like Strike-Boy, Fabolous, N.O.R.E., and a lot more flooded both 50 and Hitmaka’s responses to present their help for Jeremih. 

TMZ also stories the singer is at present on a respiratory ventilator and his problem is worsening.

This arrives as a second lockdown seems imminent. A member of President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team, Dr. Michael Osterholm, promises that the group has set alongside one another a plan that would shut down the region for 4-6 months. This would suppress the pandemic and command the virus.