Pete Parada says a doctor advised him not to have the jab because of a rare autoimmune disorder.
The drummer with US rock band The Offspring says he has been dropped from their forthcoming tour after refusing the Covid vaccine for medical reasons.
As a result, "it has recently been decided that I am unsafe to be around, in the studio and on tour", he said.Parada joined the group in 2007 and it is not clear whether he has now left permanently.Since childhood, the musician has had Guillain-Barré syndrome, where a person's immune system damages their nerves, and he said it had got worse over time.
Also on Tuesday, the Met Gala and Sundance Film Festival - two major entertainment industry events - both said they would require attendees to have had the Covid vaccine.It is a rare condition in which the body's immune system attacks the nerves, causing weakness and even paralysis and respiratory failure in severe casesIt mainly affects the feet, hands and limbs
after it became part of the government's pilot events programme, using the hashtags "#naturalrebel" and "#theydontownme".
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