Rocker Ted Nugent reveals he was in agony after testing positive for coronavirus – months after saying the virus “is not a real pandemic”.
“I thought I was dying,” Nugent said in a live video on Facebook posted Monday. “I was literally able to crawl out of bed in the last few days,” he added, “So I was officially tested positive for COVID-19 today.”
In the video filmed on his Michigan farm, the “Cat Scratch Fever” singer repeatedly uses racist insults to refer to COVID-19 and reiterates his previous position that he would not receive the vaccine because he wrongly claims that “no one knows what is in it. “
Nugent, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, previously called the pandemic a scam and spoke out against public health restrictions. He repeated a narrative pushed by conservative media and challenged by health experts, which suggests that the official number of coronavirus deaths is inflated.
A survey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in late March found that 36% of Republicans said they would probably not be vaccinated, compared to 12% of Democrats. The national average of seven days of cases remains over 60,000 new infections per day.