Ted Nugent, who once dismissed COVID-19, sickened by virus

Rocker Ted Nugent is revealing he was in agony right after testing optimistic for coronavirus — months right after he explained the virus was “not a true pandemic.”

“I believed I was dying,” Nugent states in a Fb dwell video posted Monday. “I practically could barely crawl out of bed the previous couple times,” adding: “So I was formally tested optimistic for COVID-19 nowadays.”

In the video shot at his Michigan ranch, the “Cat Scratch Fever” singer continuously makes use of racist slurs to refer to COVID-19 and reiterates his prior stance that he wouldn’t be receiving the vaccine because he promises wrongly that “nobody is aware of what is in it.”

Nugent, a supporter of ex-President Donald Trump, beforehand identified as the pandemic a scam and has railed versus community wellbeing restrictions. He has recurring a narrative pushed by conservative media and disputed by wellbeing experts that implies the formal dying depend from the coronavirus is inflated.

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A poll by The Related Press-NORC Middle for Community Affairs Study in late March discovered that 36% of Republicans explained they will almost certainly or absolutely not get vaccinated, as opposed with twelve% of Democrats. The seven-working day nationwide regular of circumstances remains above sixty,000 new bacterial infections per working day.