The Tennessee nurse, who fainted in the room after getting her COVID-19 vaccine in December, did not die – but try to tell legions of doubt on social media.
Condolences have flowed from around the world, mourning the death of the 30-year-old mother of two Tiffany Dover – even though she is alive and well, a fact that her family and Chattanooga Hospital have repeated publicly, though not with much luck. .
The culprit behind the persistent disinformation campaign seems to be anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists in general.
“I’m honestly disgusted with people right now,” Dover’s sister-in-law wrote recently on Instagram, according to the Daily Beast. “TIFFANY IS ALIVE AND FINISHED.”
But that didn’t stop some unbelievers from pondering that photos of Dover’s hair in various places could prove dead.
A dubious person even launched a Facebook page entitled “Where is Tiffany Dover?”. It currently has 5,400 members.
“This group is simply to receive confirmation that Tiffany Dover is safe. All we ask is to prove concretely that he is alive and feeling well “, says the page.
Dover fainted in the room in mid-December after receiving a Pfizer shot in the arm as part of a pro-COVID-19 immunization effort by CHI Memorial Hospital.
The nurse later told local television that it is not unusual for her to disappear when she feels pain.
But still, the rumors that she had died spread to the point where her hospital had to publicly try to put them to bed – twice.
On December 18, he wrote on Twitter that he was “at home and doing well,” the Daily Beast said, then three days later. video released of the hospital nurse with other employees who have signs with the date of the day.
A spokesman for the Chattanooga Police Department told the Daily Beast that its own social networking sites were full of requests asking if the agency was investigating whether Dover was dead.
“The police department is not involved in this at all, because there is no crime, no death, nothing,” the spokesman said.